For nearly 60 years, scientists at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR®) have conducted groundbreaking research and collaborated with industry partners to develop unique products, including lifesaving radiopharmaceuticals. MURR’s prominence as a producer of medical isotopes is part of a nearly six-decade accomplished history. Operating at 10 megawatts, the facility is the highest-power university research reactor in the United States, and its reliability makes it an essential resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, students and industry partners.

NextGen MURR is the University of Missouri’s initiative to build a new 20-megawatt, state-of-the-art reactor. The new research reactor will expand critical medical isotope research and production for cancer treatment and theranostics. This project will build on the internationally recognized excellence of MURR and will serve as an innovation and manufacturing hub for nuclear medicine in the United States for decades to come.

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