Production can resume at NTP Radioisotopes’ Pelindaba facilities after receiving the go-ahead from South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR). Preliminary production runs at the NTP processing plant, which the company said had been “effectively” shut down since November 2017 following a series of “safety-related issues”, will be followed by full production. The shutdown was ordered […]

A senior academic specialising in cancer research has called for a communication strategy to end the public’s exaggerated perception that nuclear radiation is harmful to human health. Gerry Thomas, professor of molecular pathology at Imperial College London, spoke at the World Nuclear Association Symposium 2018 held in London last week. Thomas said the real “problem” […]

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana—the third largest hospital in Africa—houses two radiation machines for treating cancer patients. Both are relatively new, purchased by Ghana’s Ministry of Health in the last few years.