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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.
W. Primak, L. H. Fuchs
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 1 | February 1957 | Pages 49-56
doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A15572
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A method for using a saturating property to formulate a linear dosage scale is developed. The method is applied to the determination of the radiation damage rate for graphite in a nuclear reactor using the per cent decrease in electrical conductivity as the property. The damage rates in a number of irradiation facilities of the CP-3, CP-3′, and X-10 reactors are given. It is conclusively shown that the thermal neutron flux cannot be used to indicate the damage rate, for the one can be varied by more than an order of magnitude with respect to the other.