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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.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Leah Spradley Parks
Alternate Chair:
Jay Peters
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Gavin Ridley
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Crack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network Deployed on Mobile Platform
3:10–3:30PM EST
Roger Boza (Florida International Univ.), Santosh Joshi (Florida International Univ.), Himanshu Upadhyay (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)
Paper
We Can Weld Shut Spent Fuel Container Lid, Next to Fuel Pellets Safely
3:30–3:50PM EST
Paul Cheng (Univ. of Alberta)
The Maximum Temperature of Heat-generating Glass Waste Canisters in Repository
3:50–4:10PM EST
Minsuk Seo (Penn. State Univ.)
TRM-Transportation of Liquid Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
4:10–4:30PM EST
G. L. Jackson (Savannah River National Laboratory), J.J. Galan (Savannah River National Laboratory)
