Note 7 - Commitments and Contingencies |
6 Months Ended |
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Jun. 30, 2025 | |
Notes to Financial Statements | |
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Text Block] |
(7) Commitments and Contingencies
Dependence on Third Parties
Sales to the Company’s top three customers for the six months ended June 30, 2025 were approximately 32% of its total gross revenue. The Company is making efforts to reduce its dependency on a small number of customers by expanding both domestic and foreign. Approximately 18% of the Company's total gross revenue was from sales from a single customer as part of our Theranostics Products segment.
The production of Cobalt-60 is dependent upon the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and its prime operating contractor, which controls the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) and laboratory operations at the ATR located outside of Idaho Falls, Idaho. From 2014 to 2024, the Company had a -year contract with the DOE for the irradiation of cobalt targets for the production of cobalt-60. The Company was able to purchase cobalt targets as available for a fixed price per target and with an annual 5% escalation in price. The contract term was October 1, 2014, through September 30, 2024. The DOE have informed the Company that they have secured additional feed stock and remain committed to production of cobalt-60, and the Company continues to source cobalt-60 from the DOE through amendments to the existing contract.
Sales of our most predominant Theranostics Products are dependent upon a few key suppliers. An interruption in production by any of these individual suppliers could have an immediate negative impact upon Theranostics Products sales until material could be purchased from alternate suppliers including obtaining regulatory approval to use material from alternative suppliers if necessary. In the six-months ended June 30, 2025, we experienced a short supply interruption from our key raw material supplier. In the six-months ended June 30, 2025, the Company received regulatory approval for an additional supplier. The Company has identified other suppliers and continues to search for additional means to produce and procure certain critical isotopes.
The Nuclear Medicine Reference and Calibration Standard products sold by the Company are dependent upon certain radioisotopes that are supplied to the Company through agreements with several suppliers. A loss of any of these suppliers could adversely affect operating results by causing a delay in production or a possible loss of sales. Beginning in the six months ended June 30, 2024, there was a global shortage of Cobalt-57 isotopes, a key isotope for this business segment that resulted in significant lost sales. In the third quarter of 2024 our main supply of Cobalt-57 was restored, and our global isotope supply chain has normalized. In six months ended June 30, 2025, a global outage of Gadolinium-153 isotopes, a key isotope for this business segment, resulted in significant lost sales. While the Company continues to work with industry to restart supply of this key isotope, we are uncertain of the timeframe to restore supply.
Contingencies
Because all the Company’s business segments involve the handling or use of radioactive material, the Company is required to have an operating license from the NRC and specially trained staff to handle these materials. The Company has amended this operating license numerous times to increase the amount of material permitted within the Company’s facility. Although this license does not currently restrict the volume of business operations performed or projected to be performed in the upcoming year, additional processing capabilities and license amendments could be implemented that would permit the processing of other reactor-produced radioisotopes by the Company. The financial assurance required by the NRC to support this license has been provided for with a surety bond held with North American Specialty Insurance Company which is supported by a restricted money market account held with Merrill Lynch. At June 30, 2025, the balance of this account was $1,462,280.
As noted in Footnote 2 above, on February 8, 2024, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its assets related to the Fluorine Products segment and the Planned Uranium De-Conversion Facility, including the Lea County land. The definitive agreement provides that the maximum date for closing is the Outside Date ( March 31, 2026), subject to further extension pursuant to the terms of the agreement. In July 2025, the buyer requested an extension of the Outside Date, which the Company determined was not in the best interests of the Company, and therefore, the Outside Date remains March 31, 2026. Closing is contingent on various conditions being met, including the buyer obtaining financing plus approvals and agreements with the NRC and other third parties. Proceeds from this sale if it closes by Outside Date would be $12.5 million in total. The Company has not recorded the value of this property as an asset and will not do so until such time that material changes to or sufficient progress on the project has been made to meet the Company’s obligations under the agreements for permanent transfer of the title.
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