In India made the country's first medicine for a cancer of an eye from ruthenium-160

DAE the Indian center of nuclear researches of Homi Bab (BARC) by it developed process of collecting the medical ruthenium-160, allowing to make local plaques from materials for use in therapy of a cancer of an eye. Ruthenium is a collateral product divisions in a cycle of nuclear processing of OYaT. Use of ruthenic plaques - the curved metal disks containing a radioactive isotope, - is the checked method of treatment of various types of a cancer of eyes, but its availability in India is limited because of expensive import sources, noted in Department of atomic energy of India (DAE). Availability of plaques...