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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.
Eric T. Clarke, John F. Batter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 1 | September 1963 | Pages 125-130
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17217
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Gamma radiation from point sources of cobalt-60 (1.25 Mev) and iridium-192 (0.4 Mev) was scattered from a concrete surface. Dose rates were measured at heights equal to source heights, as a function of the ratio of height to separation distance. The percent of scattered to direct radiation rises to a maximum of 12% at h/d = 0.10 for cobalt-60, and a maximum of 20% at h/d = 0.15 for iridium-192. These results are shown to agree with other work and with Monte Carlo calculations.