Oak Ridge Lab(@ORNL):Radium needles, seen here, once helped treat cancer. Now, these obsolete medical devices could help fight it again. ORNL researchers are recovering scarce radium-226 from the needles to help produce in-demand radioisotopes for modern cancer treatments 👉 https://t.co/CCKenhi7qh

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest multi-program #science# & #energy# research lab in the U.S. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle for @ENERGY.

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Oak Ridge Lab@ORNL

2026.09.21 12:21

Radium needles, seen here, once helped treat cancer. Now, these obsolete medical devices could help fight it again. ORNL researchers are recovering scarce radium-226 from the needles to help produce in-demand radioisotopes for modern cancer treatments 👉