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Westinghouse teams with Nordion and PSEG to produce Co-60 at Salem
Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear announced on Tuesday the signing of long-term agreements to establish the first commercial-scale production of cobalt-60 in a U.S. nuclear reactor. Under the agreements, the companies are to apply newly developed production technology for pressurized water reactors to produce Co-60 at PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Christopher M. Perfetti
Session Organizer:
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
Student Assistant:
Oscar Lastres
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Depletion Perturbation Theory Sensitivity Coefficients in Monte Carlo Simulations
3:10–3:30PM EST
Benjamin Murphy (Univ. of New Mexico), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. of New Mexico)
Paper
Conversion from R-Matrix to Pole Representation Parameters for Use in Sensitivity Analysis
3:30–3:50PM EST
Matthew Lazaric (Univ. of New Mexico), Christopher Perfetti (Univ. of New Mexico), Mark Paris (LANL)
Solving a System of Ordinary Differential Equations for Reactivity Insertion Accident with Artificial Neural Networks
3:50–4:10PM EST
Alie Akins (NC State Univ.), Ziyu Xie (NC State Univ.), Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
Quantitative Validation with Bayes Factor
4:10–4:30PM EST
Farah Alsafadi (NC State Univ.), Ziyu Xie (NC State Univ.), Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
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