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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.
Hideo Hirayama, Syuichi Ban, Shigeyuki Miura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 66-72
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16366
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Electromagnetic cascades produced in lead with 2.5-GeV bremsstrahlung were studied by using a lead glass shower counter and a thin Nal(Tl) scintillator with the help of the Monte Carlo code. Measured pulse-height distributions that show the charged-particle track length or the energy deposition distributions in the detector caused by a single source photon are compared with calculated results. The energy spectra of transmitted particles obtained from the calculation are presented to show the behavior of the electromagnetic cascade development.