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ORNL celebrates 80 years of isotopes that changed medicine forever
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ORNL celebrates 80 years of isotopes that changed medicine forever
80 years ago, a shipment out of Oak Ridge changed medicine forever. On August 2, 1946, carbon-14 produced inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s X-10 Graphite Reactor shipped out to the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis. It’s widely considered the birth of modern nuclear medicine, and the moment nuclear research pivoted toward saving lives instead of just ending wars. ORNL marked the 80th anniversary on Wednesday with a celebrat…
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