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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
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST|1
Session Chair:
R. Patrick White (MIT)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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NSTX-U Personnel Safety System – Safety Instrumented System Development and Design
Joseph R. Petrella, Jr. (PPPL), Timothy Stevenson, Mark Cropper, Paul Sichta, Michael D'Agostino, Moheb Thomas, Xin Zhao, Clarence Hines
Paper
Direct Evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Sphere-Packed Bed by Heat Conduction Simulation
Kio Takai (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi), Kazuhisa Yuki, Risako Kibushi, Noriyuki Unno
CHIMERA Integrated Testing Facility & Fusion Components Qualification
Tom Barrett (UKAEA)
Study on tritium transfer to plants from soil exposed to tritiated water
Takahiro Matano (Kyushu University), Kazunari Katayama, Toshiharu Takeishi
