On the National Technology Day 2023, the Prime Minister dedicated to Nation include Fission Molybdenum-99 Production Facility, Mumbai; Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant, Visakhapatnam; National Hadron Beam Therapy Facility, Navi Mumbai.
Key points
- Fission Molybdenum-99 Production Facility is located on the Trombay Campus of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
- Molybdenum-99 is the parent of Technetium-99m (Tc-99m), which is used in more than 85% of imaging procedures for the early detection of cancer, heart disease etc.
- The facility is expected to enable about 9 to 10 lakh patient scans per year.
- The decay product of Mo-99, Tc-99m, is the workhorse isotope in nuclear medicine for diagnostic imaging.
- Tc-99m is used for the detection of disease and for the study of organ structure and function.
- Tc-99m is especially useful for nuclear medicine procedures because it can be chemically incorporated into small molecule ligands and proteins that concentrate in specific organs or tissues when injected into the body.
