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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.
J. S. Tang, T. J. Hoffman, P. N. Stevens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 4 | December 1977 | Pages 837-842
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A14498
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This paper describes an angular biasing technique that can be employed in multigroup Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations. This technique involves an alteration of the collision kernel of particle random walk. It can be easily implemented and can result in a substantial variance reduction. Implementation of this technique in the MORSE computer code is described. A deep-penetration test problem demonstrates the variance reduction.