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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.
A. A. Vankov and V. F. Ukraintsev, N. Yaneva, S. Toshkov, A. Mateeva
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 2 | June 1987 | Pages 122-136
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16372
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Transmission and fission self-indication were measured for the isotopes 235U, 238U, and 239Pu in the unresolved resonance region for a wide range of material thicknesses. The fission cross section of 235U serves as standard. The other isotopes are the basic fuel components in plutonium fast breeder reactors., The experimental results obtained were analyzed together with average cross-section data using the multilevel R-matrix formalism. The objective of the consistent analysis was to estimate sets of mean resonance parameters. For this purpose, a new multilevel ladder technique was developed (Monte Carlo method) that enabled calculation of all the functionals of interest including their sensitivity coefficients related to the mean resonance parameters. Hence, the perturbation approach and the correlated random sampling technique were employed., The method of evaluation was strictly statistical, allowing a priori information on the parameters to be used. Thus, a new consistent evaluation of the mean resonance parameters under consideration and of the whole table of group constants requested was performed., The results are discussed with respect to their reliability in practical applications.