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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.
Hiroshi Maekawa, Yasushi Seki, Toru Hiraoka, Masatoshi Moriyama
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 57 | Number 4 | August 1975 | Pages 335-340
Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A15426
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Spherical lithium-metal assemblies with and without a graphite reflector were prepared by stacking lithium arid graphite blocks to investigate the neu-tronics in the fusion reactor blanket. The ratio of 238 U-to-285U fission rates was measured by micro -fission chambers. The fission ratio was calculated by the one-dimensional transport code ANISN with the Pg-Sg approximation using a 42-group neutron cross-section set. The fission ratios measured in the lithium-metal assembly without a graphite reflector agree well with the calculated ones. In the assembly with a graphite reflector, however, there is a large discrepancy between experiment and calculation.