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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Arnie Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Heat transport augmentation using vibration material excited by boiling bubbles for heat removal from divertor
Noriyuki Unno (Tokyo University of Science), Shin-ichi Satake (Tokyo University of Science), Jun Taniguchi, Kazuhisa Yuki
Paper
W emissivity and surface temperature in ITER
Dominique Guilhem (CEA Cadarache)
Predicted Heat Flux Performance of Actively Cooled Tungsten-Armored Graphitic Foam Monoblocks
Douglas Wolfe (ARL/PSU), Brian Williams (Ultramet, Inc.), James Klett (ORNL), Dennis Youchison (ORNL)
Reference — Summary
Determining the poloidal distribution W sourcing by light impurities and heating method in the fully W PFC in WEST
C. C. Klepper, W. R. Wampler, E. Tsitrone, J.-Y. Pascal, A. L. Neff, J. P. Gunn, N. Fedorczak, C. Desgranges, G. Ciraolo, A. Gallo, Ezekial Unterberg (ORNL)
