@60minutes: Iran attacked the world’s largest facility for natural gas, located in Qatar. Helium is a byproduct of the facility’s natural gas production and is critical for nuclear magnetic resonance machines, used in research to develop breast cancer drugs, immunotherapies and treatments for Alzheimer’s. Suddenly, that’s all imperiled – collateral damage from the Iran war. #helium #iran #medicalresearch

A. Ishtay :

The irony is that Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe!!

Bcapello23 :

Damn where does helium come from?

ValidatingUsername :

Ok BUT why isnt the room designed to have a negative pressure to suck up the helium mixed with atmosphere into like 20x the cans they used to process the helium back out?

THE.ONE.WITH.NO.NAME :

they have already developed an MRI machine that has a sealed for life extremely low amount around 0.7 liters that reuses it instead of letting it boil off and refilling. Siemens Healthineers' DryCool

ryansbestcat :

What about hydrogen

William Roger ✝️ :

helium business seems lucrative if you're on consistent supply

👹 :

why not use helium to cool data centers

user6200198969322 :

Solution: take the machine to space each month, cool it down, and come back. Ez pz.

isaac_sanchez :

They could literally just make there own

Anton :

Why don't they recycle it?

Patrick Miguel :

But where does the helium go once it’s around the magnet

8643678533678dftjwhf :

The sun makes quite a lot of it.

EZ :

I remeber watching discovery channel as a kid and they told all helium would be gone by 2010… but yet here we are

gerrycgc :

180 million balloons: A new helium production site in Saskatchewan could ease a global shortage North American Helium Inc. started up Canada’s biggest helium facility this week.

Alain :

When i see ballon in birthday party[Yeux larmoyants]

N/A :

FYI EUV machines also use Helium

Alexander (my middle name) :

lol helium is as rare as Rockefeller once said oil was

Gavin Brown :

We have an NMR facility. They should get a helium recycling system for their NMR machines. We don’t have this problem because of this.

Jim :

xxsxx :

1/3 of the helium supply comes through the straight of Hormuz. Helium is used for microchips, weapons/rockets, medical equipment.

Erik :

kelvin

realJoy :

Dollar general has a tank

J :

sounds like you need to stick up as much as possible when it is available

Wes :

This is one of those keystone moments...we can't just manufacture helium. This would hobble advanced medicine.

Asis :