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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.
Henri Weisen, Jari Varje, Paula Sirén, Zamir Ghani, JET Contributors
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 5 | July 2023 | Pages 602-609
Rapid Communication | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2164145
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two related methods for inverting line-integrated measurements are presented in this research paper in the context of the recent deuterium-tritium experiments in the JET tokamak. Unlike traditional methods of tomography, these methods rely on making use of a family of model distributions defining a functional space within which a solution of the inversion problem is expected to exist. This is a stronger assumption than that underlying traditional methods of tomography and requires that suitable models for the expected distribution be available. In return, the methods offer computationally efficient and robust reconstructions. Regressive tomography, as applied to the data from the JET neutron cameras, involves calculating a set of 100 or more two-dimensional (2-D) neutron emission distributions in a representative variety of conditions using the ASCOT and AFSI Monte Carlo fast ion orbit and fusion reaction codes. The distributions are line integrated to represent synthetic measurements from the 19 channels of this two-camera system. An inversion matrix is then obtained by regressing the 2-D distributions corresponding to each of the voxels against these line integrals. The second method, direct regressive reconstruction, bypasses the calculation of line integrals altogether by regressing experimental camera data against calculated neutron emission distributions. This method does not require the cameras to be calibrated, not even relatively between channels. The inversion matrices obtained by any of the two methods can then be used to provide neutron emission profiles for which ASCOT/AFSI calculations are not available.