THE MEDICAL TESTING CRISIS

摘要

In 2009, two nuclear research reactors shut down for repairs and maintenance. This was not surprising, given that both were around half a century old. But these reactors happened to produce most of the world's supply of the radioactive tracer technetium-99m, an isotope injected into patients in 70,000 diagnostic scans a day. Hospitals around the world went into a panic.