Medical isotopes from Poland will help relieve the shortage caused by the prolonged shutdown of the troubled Chalk River reactor, which is expected to remain out of service for at least two more months.
"Any drop helps," Christopher O'Brien, president of the Ontario Association of Nuclear Medicine, said Thursday.
The aging National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River, Ont., has been out of service since last May after a heavy water leak was discovered during a power outage.
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