McMaster University is planning on hiring up to 16 people as it expands the capacity of its nuclear reactor facility to produce medical isotopes — a key technology in the treatment of certain kinds of cancer.

The facility is the largest nuclear research reactor in the country and has been producing medical isotopes, primarily iodine-125, to treat cancer patients around the world since 1959.

This expansion will further cement the facility as one of the leading producers of medical isotopes in the world.

The new hires will help expand the operating times of the reactor to seven days a week, 24 hours a day, up from five days a week. The transition to 24/7 should come within the next 18 to 24 months, according to Karin Stephenson, McMaster's director of nuclear research and education suppor

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