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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|2:30–4:15PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Phil Ferguson (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Morphological Change in Tungsten by Off-normal Angled Femtosecond Laser
Minsuk Seo (Penn State), Shukai Yu, Venkatraman Gopalan, Leigh Winfrey
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Comprehensive investigation of helium desorption behavior in tungsten by integrated experiments and simulation
Congyi Li (UT Knoxville Tickle College of Engineering), Cuicai Fan, Wendy Garcia, Xunxiang Hu, Brian Wirth
Utilization of eroding thermocouples in the small angle slot divertor of DIII-D for assessment of heat flux and plasma detachment
David Christian Donovan (UT Knoxville), Jun Ren (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Jonathan Watkins, H.Q. Wang, Daniel Thomas, Rejean Boivin
