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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
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST|1
Session Chair:
Oleg Zikanov (Univ Michigan)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Current results on liquid metal research at the University of Illinois
Charles Kessel, Guizhong Zuo, Davide Curreli, Daniel Edward Andruczyk (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), David Neil Ruzic, Alfonso de Castro Calles, Matthew Szott, Cody Moynihan, Steven Stemmley, Daniel O'Dea, Andrew Shone, Rabel Rizkallah, Jiansheng Hu, Rajesh Maingi
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Numerical modeling for flowing liquid lithium in 3D printed divertor heat shields
Rajesh Maingi, Andrei Khodak (PPPL)
Measuring the depth of a thin-film liquid metal flow
Peter Ireland, Peter Buxton, Jack Nicholas, Naomi Thoitu Mburu (University of Oxford)
A review of enhanced heat and particle transport in liquid metals by JxB forced convection
Hailin Bi, Yoshi Hirooka (Chubu Daigaku)
