One of these, called the Isotope Production Facility, smashes the protons into a stationary target. The protons embed themselves in the target's atoms, transmuting them into new elements.
Although many radioactive isotopes exist, actinium 225's emissions are strong enough to damage cancer cells without doing as much harm to healthy ones. And this isotope dissipates in a just-right amount of time, doing its job and then decaying away.
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