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Nuclear medicine isotope shortage will lead to cancer deaths

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75% Informative

Radioisotopes are used to detect cancer tumours in patients and track the progress of the disease.

There have been no fresh supplies available to be shipped to the UK after a reactor in the Netherlands was forced to halt production for the whole of last month .

It has led to renewed calls for the UK to develop its own manufacturing facility, rather than rely on imports of nuclear medicines.

Project Arthur would see a small-scale nuclear reactor placed at Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd .

VR Score

75

Informative language

73

Neutral language

50

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

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short-lived

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