Pablo Cristini

Pablo Cristini is manager of radioisotope production at Argentina's National Commission of Atomic Energy. While at the commission, he has led the process of converting production of molybdenum 99 from highly-enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium (LEU), and has overseen transfers of LEU-based technology for molybdenum production to national authorities in Australia and Egypt. Before becoming manager of radioisotope production, he was head of the commission's fission molybdenum production plant. He has published over 25 scientific papers. He received a degree in chemical sciences, with a specialization in radiochemistry, from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985.

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Articles by Pablo Cristini

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
25 March 2013
Americas

Difficult, but worth it

Pablo Cristini

In his second Roundtable essay, Alexandr Vurim characterized me as representing a "conventional perspective" toward converting research reactors to low-enriched uranium (LEU) from highly enriched uranium (HEU).

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
21 February 2013
AfricaAmericasAsia

Conversion to LEU: Petals and thorns

Pablo Cristini

As the essays published in this Roundtable so far have established, converting research reactors and fission radioisotope production facilities to the use of low-enriched uranium (LEU) can involve a number of difficult challenges.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 February 2013
Americas

How to dispense with highly enriched uranium

Pablo Cristini

About 85 percent of all diagnostic nuclear medical procedures, amounting to 30 million procedures a year, utilize technetium 99, a metastable medical isotope. This is the decay product of molybdenum 99, which is considered the most important radioisotope employed in nuclear medicine.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
5 February 2013

Highly enriched uranium: Less is more

Charles PianiPablo CristiniAlexandr Vurim

A number of high-profile initiatives seek to reduce the possibility of nuclear proliferation and terrorism by minimizing the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian applications.