\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania state leaders are celebrating plans to bring a radio-isotope manufacturing facility to the commonwealth. TerraPower Isotopes plans to spend $450 million on the project in Philadelphia’s Bellwether District, creating at least 225 jobs. The facility will make Actinium-225, a rare radioactive material used to help create new cancer drugs. Those drugs are designed to deliver radiation directly to cancer cells, which can help doctors target tumors more precisely.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Pennsylvania state leaders are celebrating plans to bring a radio-isotope manufacturing facility to the commonwealth. <\/p>\n
TerraPower Isotopes plans to spend $450 million on the project in Philadelphia’s Bellwether District, creating at least 225 jobs. <\/p>\n
The facility will make Actinium-225, a rare radioactive material used to help create new cancer drugs. <\/p>\n
Those drugs are designed to deliver radiation directly to cancer cells, which can help doctors target tumors more precisely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania state leaders are celebrating plans to bring a radio-isotope manufacturing facility to the commonwealth. TerraPower Isotopes plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,69,83300,83299],"class_list":["post-186744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-radio-isotope-facility","tag-terrapower-isotopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}