Astral Systems Spotlight Series - Ram Muller

An introduction to Astral’s VP of Strategic Development. After over 16 years of leadership roles in the medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals businesses, Ram decided to bring his credentials, knowledge and passion to the frontier of innovations in nuclear medicine: Astral Systems, and bring their science to the market.

Medical Isotope Shortage Explainer Video With Animated Graphics

Featuring Astral Systems’ Tom Haywood and Sarah Quinlan of Radiotherapy UK, this video was created as a supplement to a presentation held in the House of Parliament. The UK’s access to medical isotopes crucial in cancer diagnosis and treatment is alarmingly low, leading to longer waiting lists and limited access for those in need of life-saving care. Radiotherapy UK and Astral Systems are both organisations working in their own right to bring awareness to this issue and present solutions.

Project Titan, Radiation Safety Training Course

University of Bristol’s Professor Tom Scott and Hot Robotics’ Dave Megson-Smith are no strangers to safety protocol in hazardous environments. Unsatisfied with current procedures and programs, they decided to take matters into their own hands and develop a system built on extensive experience in the field that could be taught and deployed in a widespread and public-facing fashion.

Astral Systems Spotlight Series - Mahmoud Bakr 

Chief Scientist Mahmoud is an integral figure in Astrals groundbreaking technological developments. Renowned for his killer table tennis skills, Mahmoud challenges himself just as he challenges the science (or opponent) before him. It’s no wonder that he gets the results that he does with his approach to both science and to life, which, to Mahmoud, are one and the same. 

Can We Recycle the UK’s Nuclear Reactors?

Researcher Chris Hutson and PhD student Jarred Minards of The University of Bristol set out to combine innovative robotics systems with nuclear decommissioning processes to test new methods of in-situ graphite characterisation. Characterisation is a key step in determining how the graphite inside a nuclear reactor is treated after decommissioning, and crucially, if it can be recycled.