Former Southwest Philly refinery site will become home to nuclear life science facility

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The first life sciences tenant at the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site broke ground Wednesday on a 250,000-square-foot custom manufacturing facility.

TerraPower Isotopes, part of a nuclear science company founded by Bill Gates, plans to invest $450 million in the facility to manufacture actinium-225, a rare radioactive isotope being tested as a targeted treatment for cancer…

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