26 Jul, 2025
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Nuclear Waste from Manhattan Project Yields Breakthrough Cancer Therapy

Radioactive Waste Repurposed for Cutting-Edge Cancer Therapy (Image: Scientists extracting Thorium-229 from Uranium-233 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Decades-old radioactive waste from the U.S. nuclear weapons program is now being transformed into a pioneering cancer treatment. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee have discovered that Uranium-233—a hazardous isotope stockpiled since the 1940s […]