The government of British Columbia has allocated $30 million Canadian ($28.5 million U.S.) to fund a project at the University of British Columbia to improve the future supply of medical isotopes.
The funding is part of a $63 million Canadian ($60 million U.S.) Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) project at the university's TRIUMF physics laboratory, where scientists will build a device that will produce beams of subatomic particles to create isotopes from chemical elements.
ARIEL also will receive $14.4 million Canadian ($13.7 million U.S.) from several Canadian universities that support TRIUMF, along with $17.8 million Canadian ($17 million U.S.) from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
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