With groundbreaking innovations, the company is not only transforming energy but also revolutionizing the medical industry with life-saving isotopes.
SHINE Technologies, founded by Dr. Greg Piefer, is on a mission to usher in the nuclear fusion era.
Isotopes, when used in imaging devices or attached to certain drugs, can help identify or cure cancer, tumors and other disorders through the short-range radiation they emit. However, the raw materials used to make these isotopes are often exclusively sourced from Russia, and producing them requires aging nuclear reactors.
SHINE Technologies is overcoming these challenges as it has found a way to produce medical isotopes using its own raw materials at its Wisconsin campus. The game-changing innovation will allow the scaling of isotope production and the creation of millions of patient doses.
“Our facility will be the largest isotope production facility in the world,” says Piefer, founder and CEO of SHINE Technologies. “We have demonstrated fusion at a level where it can outcompete fission reactors as a means for producing isotopes. The future of the pharma supply chain can rest easier knowing that we are here.”
Over the next three to five years, SHINE Technologies plans to become the world’s top radioisotope producer, contributing to Wisconsin’s emergence as a nuclear technology hub. However, the company’s innovations not only improve isotope production but also have broader implications for nuclear energy. SHINE Technologies is advancing toward recycling nuclear waste before eventually focusing on the final phase of its portfolio offering development—generating fusion energy.
“All our efforts are bound to improve humanity, creating a safer, healthier and cleaner world,” says Piefer, who has a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Our purpose is clear: to deploy state-of-the-art fusion technology to solve global problems in industries like health care and the environment today while creating a scalable path to practical fusion energy. We’re well-positioned to tackle these global challenges head-on.”
Learn more about SHINE Technologies at shinefusion.com.
