SHINE officials meet their potential neighbors

JANESVILLE — The questions Greg Piefer answered about his company's plan to build a medical isotope production plant on Janesville's south side were ones he has fielded many times.

It was Tuesday night's setting for those questions, however, that was anything but routine.

Piefer, founder and chief executive officer of SHINE Medical Technologies, wasn't in a regulator's office or appearing before the Janesville City Council. Instead, he and several of his staff were at Kealy's Airport Kafe, where they sat informally and explained the company's planned operation to south-side neighbors who ate pie and drank coffee.

Tuesday's session was a part of the company's ongoing effort to explain itself to the community and get to know its members and their concerns.

SHINE plans to build an $80 million production facility on the city's south side that would initially make molybdenum-99, a medical isotope used in more than 30 different diagnostic imaging procedures that are performed more than 50,000 times each day in the United States.

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