How does nuclear medicine relate to chemistry?

Answer 1

I don't know if you mean the chemical processing of spent nuclear fuel, if so the Wikipedia article on PUREX will give you more information. This is an extract:

PUREX is an acronym standing for Plutonium - URanium EXtraction. The spent nuclear fuel to which this process is applied consists primarily of certain very high atomic-weight (actinoid or "actinide") elements (e.g., uranium) along with smaller amounts of material composed of lighter atoms, notably the so-called fission products. In addition to the materials intentionally placed into it (which include elements other than strictly fuel elements), the reactor environment is a veritable "alchemist's stew", inevitably "breeding" smaller amounts of many other elements and isotopes of those elements through processes like nuclear transmutation and decay. The actinoid elements in this case consist primarily of the largely unconsumed remains of the original fuel (typically U-238 and other isotopes of uranium). In addition there are smaller quantities of other actinoids, created when one isotope is transmuted into another by a reaction involving neutron capture. Plutonium-239 is the leading example. Another term sometimes seen in relation to this secondary material (and other material produced similarly) is activation products. In response to the PUREX process' ability to extract nuclear weapons materials from the spent fuel, trade in the relevant chemicals is monitored. In brief, the PUREX process is a liquid-liquid extraction ion-exchange method used to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, in order to extract primarily uranium and plutonium, independent of each other, from the other constituents.

Answer 2

Nuclear chemistry refers to the separation and identification of radioactive nuclides through the use of chemical reactions rather than physics methods such as mass spectrometers. When Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie were doing their work with radioactive substances they were using a lot of chemistry to identify which elements they had. Glenn Seaborg, in the mid twentieth century used chemical techniques to identify and purify new elements with more than 92 protons. These techniques were based on the expected chemical reaction (not nuclear reaction) properties from the Periodic Table of elements. These days, most element identification of radionuclides is done using x-ray, gamma-ray, half-life, and mass-spectrometer techniques.


The term nuclear chemistry is not used widely because chemistry deals with nucleus only for number of nucleons and their masses, the interaction of these particles, their binding forces and radioactivity are the topics of Nuclear physics so Nuclear physics overcomes the nuclear chemistry.

Answer 3

Nuclear chemistry refers to the separation and identification of radioactive nuclides through the use of chemical reactions rather than physics methods such as mass spectrometers. When Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie were doing their work with radioactive substances they were using a lot of chemistry to identify which elements they had. Glenn Seaborg, in the mid twentieth century used chemical techniques to identify and purify new elements with more than 92 protons. These techniques were based on the expected chemical reaction (not nuclear reaction) properties from the periodic table of elements. These days, most element identification of radionuclides is done using x-ray, gamma-ray, half-life, and mass-spectrometer techniques.

Answer 4

Examples: study of radioactive decay products, preparation of compounds containing radioisotopes, radiolysis, study of radioactive elements and isotopes, study of chemical processes in nuclear reactors, pollution with radioactive isotopes etc.

Answer 5

The term nuclear chemistry is not used widely because chemistry deals with nucleus only for number of nucleons and their masses, the interaction of these particles, their binding forces and radioactivity are the topics of Nuclear physics so Nuclear physics overcomes the nuclear chemistry.

Answer 6

Nuclear medicine involves using radioactive materials for diagnosis and treatment of diseases within the body. Chemistry plays a crucial role in the production, labeling, and understanding of these radioactive tracers, as well as in the design of imaging agents and therapeutic compounds used in nuclear medicine procedures. Chemistry helps to ensure the safety, efficacy, and accuracy of nuclear medicine techniques.

Answer 7

Atoms can be the source of both nuclear and chemical energy. Isotopes are different forms of an atom of the same chemical element.

Answer 8

Doctors do many tests on their patients that include observations, procedures, and experiments. Medicine also plays a big role in Chemistry.

Answer 9

Nuclear chemistry is the chemistry of radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties.nuclear chemistry is the chemistry of substances which are radioactive.