Framatome Healthcare: supporting nuclear medicine and healthcare industry
Surgeon analyzing MRI results on a monitor © iStock
Nuclear has a lot going for it, on top of low-carbon electricity. It also helps save lives, especially through nuclear medicine.
Nuclear technologies play a crucial role in modern healthcare. They are essential in the fight against cancer, where medical radioisotopes are used at all stages of patient care for detection, diagnosis and therapeutic purposes. Framatome has a long-standing presence in this domain.
With diversified expertise from the nuclear energy field, our experts advance the fight against cancer and medical applications of nuclear technology.
From reactor to patient, a unique know-how in support to healthcare industry
Framatome Healthcare is committed to developing products and services for the healthcare industry. It supports the value chain for the radioisotopes used in radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging and therapeutic purposes. It supplies special alloys for the development of surgical implants and prostheses. It also provides advanced solutions for complex sterilization facilities essential for the safe use of medical materials.
30m/y
scintigraphy procedures with
Technietium-99m are based
on Framatome targets (on
45M/year to diagnose cancer)
World-first
Framatome’s technology enabled
the first production of nca
Lutetium-177 in a power reactor
20.000
fuel elements produced
by Framatome for research
reactors worldwide
Isotopes production for medical applications
Framatome is committed to building robust supply chains to ensure cancer patients have long-term access to high-quality treatments.
Through its CERCA division, Framatome supplies uranium targets used to produce radionuclides essential for cancer diagnostic imaging worldwide.
Framatome has developped an innovative technology to produce short-lived radioisotopes, used in cancer-fighting treatments, out of power reactors.
Solutions for gamma sterilization facilities
Framatome offers tailor-made innovative solutions, from modernization to turnkey solutions for new installations, supporting the growing global demand for industrial and medical sterilization services.
Special alloys for medical applications
Zirconium alloys are biocompatible and are better tolerated by human tissues with better durability.
The alloys developed by Framatome can also be used in innovative products for advanced medical treatments.
Solutions for research reactors
The objective is to ensure efficient and sustainable operation, as well as reliable and steady production of medical radioisotopes.
Did you know?
Lutetium-177 is a beta-emitting radioisotope, and the active substance used in several radiopharmaceuticals for the treatment of prostate cancer, as well as in many radiotherapeutics developments for other cancer indications.
With cancer rates rising around the world, demand for Lutetium-177 could increase 20-fold within 10 years.
Framatome has a major asset to support the large-scale production of this radioisotope: a unique technology for power reactor production, developed thanks to the know-how of its I&C and services activities, and complementary to the production carried out today in research reactors.
Did you know?
Our CERCA division has been supplying fuel elements and uranium targets to research reactors for decades, allowing the production of various radionuclides for medical purpose, in particular for cancer diagnostics imaging.
CERCA is global leader for the supply of uranium targets used for the production of Molybdenum-99, the precursor of Technetium-99m, which is currently the main radioisotope used in cancer-diagnosing scintigraphy procedures.
180 million euros have been invested in our facility to ensure long-term manufacturing of fuel elements and new products development at CERCA, in support to research reactors worldwide.