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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. P. Jain, R. E. Chrien, J. A. Moore, H. Palevsky
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 319-324
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17377
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An accurate determination of the parameters of the resonance excited by the interaction of 132 ev neutrons with the Co59 target nucleus has been made, using the fast choppers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and Chalk River Laboratory in Canada. Neutron transmission through thick and thin samples resulted in the following parameters: In addition, measurements of the resonance capture γ-ray intensity gave the value for the radiation width #x0413;γ = 0.40 ± 0.04 ev. based on the known thermal capture cross section of cobalt of 37.5 barns. The reduced and total resonance capture integrals are calculated from the above parameters to be 50.5 ± 5.5 and 67.C ± 5 5 barns, respectively. The above results are compared with previously determined resonance parameters and also with direct measurements of the total resonance capture integral.