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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.
D. K. Olsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 94 | Number 1 | September 1986 | Pages 102-106
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17123
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The s-wave strength function from 676 resonances between 0.9 and 10.0 keV is reported from a consistent least-squares simultaneous-sample shape analysis of the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator 150-m four-sample 238U transmission data. The neutron widths from 0.9 to 6.0 keV from this improved analysis are meant to supersede previously published values. These resonances give an s-wave strength function of about 0.94 × 10−4 from 0 to 10 keV.