A Forgotten Legacy: How Nuclear Reactors Built for War Transformed Peacetime Science | Inside Science

A Forgotten Legacy: How Nuclear Reactors Built for War Transformed Peacetime Science | Inside Science: (Inside Science) -- On July 16 this year, on what marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test, a patient may go to the doctor for a heart scan. A student may open her textbook to study the complex chemical pathways green plants use to turn carbon dioxide in the air into sugar.