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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
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Mitch W. Pryor
Alternate Chair:
Young Soo Park
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Kervin Coss
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A2I2: Autonomous Aquatic Inspection and Intervention in Nuclear Storage Ponds
10:05–10:25AM EST
Simon Watson (Univ. of Manchester), Gary Cross (Rovco), Peter Green (Univ. of Manchester), John Parsons (Thales UK), Peter Routledge (Forth Engineering), Nick Tudor (D-RisQ), Terry Wood (National Oceanographic Centre)
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The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear (RAIN) Hub
10:25–10:45AM EST
Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester), Guy Burroughes (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
TORONE: Materials Characterisation Robot for Nuclear Inspection
10:45–11:05AM EST
Andrew West (Univ. of Manchester), Ioannis Tsitsimpelis (Lancaster Univ.), Paul Coffey (Univ. of Manchester), Michael Aspinall (Lancaster Univ.), Nick T. Smith (Univ. of Manchester), Philip A. Martin (Univ. of Manchester), Malcolm J. Joyce (Lancaster Univ.), Barry Lennox (Univ. of Manchester)
Image Stitching and Illumination Correction for Metallic Multi-Purpose Canister Visual Inspection Data
11:05–11:25AM EST
Michael Devereux (Univ. of Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. of Strathclyde), Graeme West (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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