On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in everything from culture to medicine. This podcast explores how nuclear science has impacted and changed our world in both beneficial and destructive ways. We explore the intersection of nuclear science and society using interviews with historians, policymakers, experts in their fields, and first-hand accounts to weave a picture of your nuclear life.
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episode 4: Sunshine in a bottle. The origins of using radiation as a modern cancer treatment with Aimee Slaughter
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Aimee Slaughter. They discuss early radium therapy its journey from sideshow attraction to a staple in US hospitals before WWII. This marks the first-time physicists and chemists worked with physicians in hospitals and clinics to brings a treatment to the public with the hopes to cure cancer. The podcast addresses the different ways radium therapy has helped shape the modern technology in our hospitals today.
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