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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
26th Technology of Fusion Energy Meeting (TOFE 2024)
John Echols is the program manager for Materials and Internal Components in the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy. John received his masters’ in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech and his PhD from the University of Florida. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He rose to the level of Senior Materials Scientist before moving into the program manager role in the U.S. Department of Energy.
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