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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.
Chi-Jung Hsu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 305-318
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17351
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The heat transfer characteristics for the case of laminar flow through a hexagonal channel have been determined for the following conditions: The uniform heat flux on any one side of the hexagon is identical to that on the opposite side, and may be equal to or different than those on the two adjacent sides; both the velocity and temperature profiles are fully established; the heat transfer from the walls may or may not be accompanied by simultaneous internal heat generation in the flowing fluid. Fundamental temperature solution and equations are presented which may be used to predict the temperature field, or to calculate the difference between local wall temperature and the bulk fluid temperature for a variety of cases. Methods of predicting the variation of local wall temperature are illustrated for several typical cases, including the case of uniformly distributed wall heat flux. For the latter case, it was found that appreciable temperature variation exists along the periphery of the hexagon. The circumferential variation of the local Nusselt number and the mean Nusselt number are also reported, with and without internal heat generation.