Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, has   reported on the design of a new reactor, more advanced than the Tehran University Medical Research Reactor, for production of radio-medicines in the near future.                                                                                                                                                     During the first conference on preparation and control of radio-medicines in Tehran, today, he added that Iran, among regional countries and the World of Islam, has higher scientific capabilities for production of radio-isotopes, given its 50-year experience in nuclear know-how and technology.

Salehi added that Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to ease the sales and exports of these medicines to regional and Islamic countries through the launching of numerous reactors in the north, south, east, and west of Iran.

He noted that the production of different radio-medicines increases day by day for nuclear medicine applications in Iran, and the impact of atomic energy on the industrial, agricultural, and medical sectors, is rising on a daily basis.