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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. F. Kenney, H. Susskind
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 2 | February 1961 | Pages 211-220
doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A15605
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The uniformity and stability of ThO2-Bi dispersions (with 350 ppm each of Mg and Zr) were measured in fifty pound batches containing up to 11.5% ThO2 and also in circulating experiments carried out in a ½-in. IPS pumped loop at ThO2 concentrations up to 7.4%. Good results were obtained in all experiments where gas entrainment was prevented or eliminated.