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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.
Z P. Luo, S. M. Wu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 1 | September 1986 | Pages 12-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17112
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A simplified model describing the complicated boiling water reactor (BWR) kinetics is developed by combining two different approaches: the analytical and the experimental, the latter based on the dynamic data system methodology. This model is capable of adequately representing the BWR main dynamics, which can be, in turn, conveniently used to predict its kinetics. Although the system exhibits some highly nonlinear characteristics, it is approximated by a linear model. By using Peach Bottom-2 real operating data without perturbation, the dynamics of the BWR are experimentally identified, and the results are found to be in close agreement with those obtained by the General Electric Company.