# Nuclide record b-mo99-supply (bottleneck). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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<https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-mo99-supply/>
  a schema:Thing ;
  nuclide:kind "bottleneck" ;
  schema:identifier "b-mo99-supply" ;
  schema:name "Molybdenum-99 supply"@en ;
  schema:description "Most of the world's everyday nuclear medicine scans depend on a radioactive metal, molybdenum-99, made in a handful of ageing research reactors. When one of them breaks down, hospitals thousands of miles away run short of scans within days because the material decays so fast it cannot be stockpiled."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-mo99-supply/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-10/7743_medical_radioisotopes_supply_rev.pdf>, <https://www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resources/alerts/2025/4/radiopharmaceutical-industry-update-q4-q1-2024-2025/>, <https://resources.inmm.org/system/files/patram_proceedings/2010/233_Paper_TRANSPORT-OF-RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS,-CRADLE-TO-THE-P.pdf> ;
  nuclide:tag "supply chain", "molybdenum-99", "technetium-99m", "reactor infrastructure" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/ideas/idea-reg-medical-isotope-reactor-reserve/>, <https://nuclide.cc/ideas/idea-reg-isotope-supply-observatory/>, <https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-cold-chain-logistics/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/mo-99/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/research-reactor-isotope-production/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/therapy-isotope-supply-chain/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radionuclide-generators-kits/> ;
  nuclide:companies <https://nuclide.cc/companies/northstar-medical-radioisotopes/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/shine-technologies/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/curium/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ntp-radioisotopes/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ire/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ansto/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/nordion/> .