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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. R. Liaw, H. Henryson II
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 4 | August 1983 | Pages 324-336
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A15453
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The development and evaluation of a lumped fission product neutron cross-section library based on ENDF/B-V data suitable for fast reactor applications have been completed. Both one- and two-lump models have been investigated in detail. Fission product inventories at various burnup steps were calculated by the EPRI-CINDER-2 code and used as weighting functions for lumping. This paper addresses several important issues related to the lumped data including the relative merits of the two models, the dependence on burnup history, the influence of fuel composition and neutron spectrum, the impact of various data bases, the application of the lumped data, the effect of the scattering matrix, and finally the impact on the fission product reactivity worth in a fast reactor system. Although the data and results contained in this paper are specifically related to a particular mixed-oxide core design, they have general validity and application to other similar liquid-metal fast breeder reactor designs.