Nuclear waste being transformed into promising cancer treatment at former Manhattan Project site

Nuclear power is seeing a renaissance due to the need for cleaner energy and rising electricity demand because of the increasing use of artificial intelligence. And now, it could also play a role in treating cancer.The former headquarters of the Manhattan Project, where the world's first atomic bomb was created, is now turning nuclear waste into a potential cure for cancer.The research is being conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Nuclear power company TerraPower and Energy Department contractor AtkinsRealis Isotek have developed a process to extract a key component from nu