International Conference on Isotopes Case Study — Transcript

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1. 0:04Being the center of isotopic medicine
2. 0:08and the nuclear application for medicine
3. 0:12was not only the perfect fit for this
4. 0:14conference,
5. 0:16but surprising to all of us who work on
6. 0:18the ground here in Saskatoon
7. 0:21to enable these kinds of business events
8. 0:22to come to our community
9. 0:24because
10. 0:26for many of us, we quietly go about our
11. 0:28lives in this beautiful city and
12. 0:31unbeknownst to us, there are
13. 0:32intellectuals residing here who have
14. 0:35chosen to live here leading the world in
15. 0:38this kind of science.
16. 0:41And we were very fortunate to meet Chary
17. 0:43and Lydia who were the co-chairs of the
18. 0:46International Conference on Isotopes
19. 0:48that was organized by the World Council
20. 0:51on Isotopes here in Saskatoon,
21. 0:54Saskatchewan.
22. 0:56Who have changed how we think about our
23. 0:58city and how we speak about our city
24. 1:02with regard to nuclear medicine.
25. 1:15>> The isotopes are themselves are very,
26. 1:17very important for the energy
27. 1:19sustainability.
28. 1:21And if the supply is
29. 1:24curtailed for any geopolitical reasons
30. 1:26or whatever it is, tomorrow the our
31. 1:28hospitals will close.
32. 1:30Patients will suffer. They actually will
33. 1:32stop functioning.
34. 1:35>> Russia and Ukraine, they've been key
35. 1:37players in the isotopes and nuclear
36. 1:41technology industry.
37. 1:44Once the rupture became in, Russia was
38. 1:48no longer
39. 1:50a visible player in the industry.
40. 1:54So, most of the supply
41. 1:57needed to come from somewhere else. That
42. 1:59means new technologies to be developed,
43. 2:02new capabilities to be developed, new
44. 2:04capacities to be established.
45. 2:10During the conference
46. 2:13or around the conference, all of these
47. 2:15discussions have been initiated. And
48. 2:18here we are like 3 years later
49. 2:21and we see that these technologies
50. 2:23started to be already implemented.
51. 2:27And that's because people sat down at
52. 2:30the same table and they're looking to
53. 2:32get solutions.
54. 2:35>> Having a conference like the
55. 2:37International Conference for Isotope
56. 2:39really did give us the opportunity to
57. 2:41shine a light on the Canadian Light
58. 2:44Source and what we have to offer using
59. 2:46our medical isotope technology. Due to
60. 2:49some of the global shortages of medical
61. 2:51isotopes around the world, we took this
62. 2:54as an opportunity to utilize some of our
63. 2:57expertise that we have in-house on
64. 2:59linear accelerator technology and to
65. 3:01create our own new type of electron
66. 3:04linear accelerator for medical isotopes.
67. 3:08>> So, one of the key outcomes from or
68. 3:09around the conference was the execution
69. 3:12of the supply agreement
70. 3:15between the Canadian Nuclear
71. 3:17Laboratories and C 64 Center
72. 3:21for the supply of actinium 225 which is
73. 3:24the most sought after
74. 3:27isotopes in the world right now with
75. 3:30high potential of cancer therapy.
76. 3:34Following the signature of that
77. 3:36particular agreement
78. 3:38a new entity has been formed that is
79. 3:41called Actinium
80. 3:43which is a joint venture between the
81. 3:45Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and a
82. 3:48German entity so that Canada will be
83. 3:52supplying this key isotope everywhere in
84. 3:56the world.
85. 3:59In the nuclear sciences, we consider
86. 4:02Saskatoon as being an intellectual
87. 4:04capital.
88. 4:05>> It is not an industry that I would say
89. 4:07is heavily dominated by women. And in
90. 4:10fact, the women in nuclear and women in
91. 4:12mining organizations in this province
92. 4:15that are headquartered in Saskatoon have
93. 4:17exponentially grown as a result of this
94. 4:20business event. The expansion of our
95. 4:22students and professors and intellects
96. 4:25at the Fedoruk Centre and here at the
97. 4:26University of Saskatchewan and then the
98. 4:28further expansion of the human capital
99. 4:30that is going to reside here in
100. 4:32Saskatoon are induced impacts of a
101. 4:35business event being here that cannot be
102. 4:37forgotten. But that Saskatoon is ground
103. 4:40zero for this sector for nuclear
104. 4:43applications in energy, in agriculture,
105. 4:45in medicine.
106. 4:47And the world needs to know about that
107. 4:49and come here and not only feel the
108. 4:51embrace of our community, which is so
109. 4:53beautiful, but understand that we have
110. 4:55some incredible intellectual capital
111. 4:57here that is going to create solutions
112. 4:59for the future.