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Apart from producing electricity, nuclear reactors are used to produce radioactive isotopes for medical and industrial purposes. Such reactors are built on a small scale and don't produce electricity, but they have facilities for introducing material samples which are then irradiated to produce the desired end results. In medicine radioactive materials are used for both diagnosis and treatment particularly of cancer. In industry high power gamma sources are used to examine welds for cracks. Such sources have to be carefully handled in shielded containers.

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