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The reactor power sounds like it is in the range of TRIGA and you have a video of a TRIGA reactor on your FAQ page. It looks like you are planning to use a TRIGA design. Is that right?

NorthStar has started producing Mo-99 in accelerators without fissioning targets. Other producers may start soon:

Competitors abound to produce key medical isotope

After decades with no US producer, a plethora of hopefuls vie for a share of the molybdenum-99 market.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2019022...

Your FAQ says "As a private, production-oriented company, we intend to vertically integrate much of the radioisotope process to reduce inefficiencies and build a modular facility that can be expanded as a stable supply of radioisotopes encourages their use and increases demand." How much demand elasticity do you foresee, if Atomic Alchemy and competitors can easily produce more Mo-99 than was historically consumed?

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