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Could this startup’s compact nuclear reactors revolutionize cancer detection?
As cancer rates in the West, and globally, tack upwards due to lifestyle and environmental pollution, so does the need for the nuclear isotopes used in
Astral Systems, cofounded by Talmon Firestone and Dr. Tom Wallce-Smith, employs something called multistate fusion (MSF) technology in its ‘compact reactors’, enabling the increased supply of the nuclear isotopes used in modern medicine. Astral’s co-founder and CTO, Dr Tom Wallace-Smith told TechCrunch: “The whole industry has been in sort of supply constraint historically because of this reliance on centralized reactors.” He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities.
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