Stable Isotope Production Facility

In 2018, the Department of Energy (DOE) committed to build the Stable Isotope Production Facility (SIPF) to produce stable isotopes that are in short supply and cannot be enriched with current domestic capabilities. These isotopes will benefit medicine, industrial manufacturing, nuclear and physical science research, and homeland security.

 Scheduled for completion by 2025 the $25.5 million facility on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory campus will be housed in the same space as the Enriched Stable Isotope Prototype Plant (ESIPP), with state-ofthe-art systems to protect the technology and materials produced. SIPF will establish a domestic full-production cascade for enriched stable isotopes. Stable isotopes produced at SIPF will fill government research and other domestic needs not met by commercial suppliers. SIPF will also reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign sources of enriched stable isotopes by facilitating new capabilities to produce useful quantities of priority stable isotopes. This will help fill the void left when operation of the Oak Ridge calutrons ceased in 1998.