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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.
Roy A. Axford
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 2 | August 1958 | Pages 139-154
doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A15358
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Several problems in heat conduction relating to internally cooled nuclear reactors are solved by means of successive Schwarz-Christoffel transformations. Formulas are derived for the computation of the thermal resistance between hot and cold fluids flowing through a solid in parallel channels of variously shaped cross sections, including the square, rectangle, and an oval approximation to the circle and the ellipse.