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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.
2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting Plenary Session Speaker
Professor
Associate Department Head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benoit Forget is a Professor and Associate Department Head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT. He joined MIT in 2008 and was involved with the CASL project throughout its lifetime. He specializes in the area of computational reactor physics and radiation transport. He obtained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his MS and BS degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
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