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$84,091,682

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to SHINE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

healthactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-10-22·LATEST ACTION2026-03-03·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_DENA0004010_089
Award description

SHINE WAS FOUNDED IN 2010 WITH THE GOAL OF BECOMING THE WORLD LEADER IN THE SAFE, CLEAN, AFFORDABLE PRODUCTION OF MEDICAL ISOTOPES. SINCE 2010, SHINE HAS AGGRESSIVELY PURSUED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DOMESTIC SOURCE OF HIGH SPECIFIC ACTIVITY MO-99 WITHOUT THE USE OF HEU TO END THE CHRONIC SHORTAGES US PATIENTS ARE EXPERIENCING.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on the 2021 SHINE contract to advance domestic production of molybdenum-99 medical isotopes without enriched uranium.

Sub-sectors
medical-isotopesdomestic-productionnuclear-medicine
Why this matters

Ending U.S. dependence on foreign medical isotope supplies reduces chronic shortages affecting millions of patients needing diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine.

Supply-chain signal

Domestic Mo-99 production eliminates reliance on foreign suppliers and reduces supply-chain vulnerability for hospitals and imaging centers nationwide.

U.S.–China competition angle

Securing domestic medical isotope production reduces geopolitical leverage of foreign suppliers and strengthens U.S. healthcare independence.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-31. Cost: $0.003012.

Period of performance
Start
2021-10-22
End
2026-10-21
Status
activein 100 days
Sources

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