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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.
Fuyuan Wu, Rafael Ramis, Zhenghong Li, Yanyun Chu, Jianlun Yang, Zhen Wang, Shijiang Meng, Zhanchang Huang, Jiaming Ning
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 4 | November 2017 | Pages 726-730
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1347458
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The interaction between Z-pinch plasma and foam converter has an important effect on the formation of Z-pinch dynamic hohlraums. A new program has been developed to study related physical processes. Numerical results suggest that the interaction on 7–10 MA drivers is strong enough to create dynamic hohlraums with radiation temperature over 100 eV. Simulations also indicate that a radiating shock would appear due to the collision of Z-pinch plasma and foam converter, in good agreement with the measurements on JULONG-I facility. In this technical note, we present the physical model and simulation results, as well as typical experimental results.