Ep 40: Amanda Youker, Argonne National Lab

Episode Content:​ Amanda's interest in chemistry and her work at a crime lab.   A breakdown of molybdenum 99 and technetium 99m.   Why metastable isotopes are useful for medical applications.   What are ligins?   From a security perspective, why it's in the US' interest to domestically produce molybdenum 99.   The traditional and nontraditional methods of producing molybdenum 99.   Tradeoffs of different production processes.   The Argonne Molybdenum Research Experiment.   Why precipitating uranium creates a hotspot.   How corrosion can be beneficial in producing uranium peroxide precipitate.   What's in store for the future.