Creation of British Thorium
by UK Government Ministry of Supply (Radium Management)
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Business transferred to TRC (The Radiochemical Centre - part of the UK government - UKAEA)
Responsibility for the commercial/civil development of radioactive isotopes
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TRC production of first Cobalt-60 sealed sources for dry storage irradiators X180 (RSL1800)
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World's first
commercial medical products irradiation plant 0.5 MCi Dry storage irradiator using TRC sources built by HS Marsh Ltd. for Johnson and Johnson, UK
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World's first 1 MCi irradiation plant
Dry storage irradiator using TRC sources built by HS Marsh Ltd. for Radona, Sweden
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TRC privatised as "Amersham International plc"
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First dry storage
irradiator built using TRC Co-60 sources
The UK Atomic Energy Authority's Wantage Research Laboratory request HS Marsh Ltd. to design a gamma irradiation facility
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World's first food irradiation plant
0.25 MCi dry storage irradiator using TRC sources built by HS Marsh Ltd. at Wageningen, Holland
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TRC established as a 100% government owned company - separated from UKAEA
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Amersham International purchases first Co-60 raw material from Russian reactors
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NUKEM GmbH, Germany purchases design rights and consultancy from Marsh Irradiators International
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REVISS established
Russian English Venture in Isotope Supply Services - as a joint venture between Amersham International, PA Mayak and Techsnabexport. To facilitate a reliable source of supply of Co-60 and other bulk isotopes used by the Amersham International healthcare, lifescience and industrial businesses
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Amersham International produces first X2089 wet storage Co-60 sources
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"PURIDEC Irradiation Technologies™" - Brand established
by Amersham International for Co-60 sealed sources and industrial irradiation products. 1st significant alternative to the market leader for Co-60 sources
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Partnership established between PURIDEC Irradiation Technologies, and NUKEM GmbH for the design and build of industrial irradiation plant
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World's first pumped liquids irradiator
for latex cross linking built by PURIDEC/NUKEM in Malaysia
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REVISS acquires PURIDEC Irradiation Technologies from Amersham International
New and innovative developments on the world's most well-established plant design of Marsh International are initiated
1st to offer external hydraulics to extend service cycle, reduce costs and improve reliability
1st to offer moveable track design to provide fine dose control
1st to implement PHI™ (pre-assembled hardware installation) to minimise plant downtime during upgrades and reduce costs in new plant installation
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First 2089-design sealed Co-60 sources produced by PA Mayak under the Amersham International quality system using UK components in a pioneering technology transfer
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REVISS quality system achieves ISO9001 accreditation
1st to establish detailed water quality requirements for the safe use of Co-60 sealed radiation sources in wet storage irradiators
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Launch of I-CON™
an integrated plant control system using an Industry standard Microsoft Windows ™ user interface to reduce operator training needs and simplify integration with existing management systems
1st PC based integrated plant control system to wholly supercede programmable logic (PLC) and relay logic control
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PURIDEC builds its' first U.S.A. plant
PURIDEC Irradiation Technologies
launches into the US plant building market with an 8 MCi, wet storage, double pass, tote irradiator
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REVISS partnership with CNEA
the Argentinean National Commission for Nuclear Energy - to secure a second ISO9001 compliant manufacture for Co-60 sources
First production of 2089-design Co-60 sealed radiation sources to ISO9001 standards in Argentina
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A new era for PURIDEC Irradiation Technologies
Purchase of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of MARSH plant designs from NUKEM GmbH
Unified water quality requirements established in partnership with major alternative supplier
1st to offer interactive source optimisation enabling predicative 3D dose distribution
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