AEC Cancer Research

Two recent announcements have underlined the Atomic Energy Commission’s concern with at least one extremely important nonmilitary subject, cancer research. On the University of Chicago campus a three and one‐half million dollar hospital is now being constructed and is to be operated by the University under an AEC contract. The decision to locate the hospital on the Chicago campus was made some months ago at the request of the management of the Argonne National Laboratory, and the building has been designed specifically for cancer research with radioactive materials. Experts from Argonne’s health physics division will be available to the hospital staff and radioisotopes to be used will be provided from the Laboratory’s nuclear reactor. Nearness of the Argonne pile to the new hospital is particularly helpful since isotopes with short half‐lives may be transported with a minimum energy loss.

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