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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.
M. Usman Naseer, F. Deeba, S. I. W. Shah, S. Hussain, A. Qayyum
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 947-956
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1820748
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Photodiodes masked with narrow-band filters have been used to obtain the temporal profiles of Hα and Hβ line emissions in the pre-ionization phase of hydrogen discharge in the MT-I Spherical Tokamak. The line ratio method relating the emission intensities of the above mentioned lines, having different excitation thresholds, provides the temporal profile of electron temperature. A triple Langmuir probe array having three individual sets of triple probes, arranged linearly, has also been used to measure the temporal profile of electron temperature at three different radial positions simultaneously. Additionally, a spectrometer HR4000+ is used to get the line-integrated emission intensity of H-Balmer lines. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate the successful development of the optical and electric probe as a diagnostic tool for tokamak discharge.