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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.
R. L. Macklin, J. Halperin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 4 | December 1977 | Pages 849-858
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A14500
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Neutron capture by isotopically purified 232Th was measured at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator. The pulse-height weighting method was used with small liquid scintillators to measure the prompt gamma-ray energy release following neutron capture. Resonance parameters were derived up to 10 keV. The average radiative width was (19.8 ± 0.2 statistical ± 0.4 systematic) meV for 50 resonances in the 2.6- to 4.0-keV interval. Strength functions 104S0 = 0.365 ± 0.024, 104 S1 = 1.078 ± 0.057, 104S2 > 0.842 ± 0.084, and y/D0 = 0.0198/(13.24 ± 0.71) were found to fit the average cross section well (to 105 keV) when allowance was made for p-wave inelastic competition above the ∼50-keV threshold. While the values stated gave the best fit (from 2.6 to 105 keV) when all four were allowed to vary, it is likely that “acceptable” fits could be forced for other values. Recent evaluations of the cross section range from 8 to 50% higher than results reported here.