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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.
L. Amyot, P. Benoist
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 215-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17471
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A new method of calculation is presented for directional probabilities of interaction in pin clusters and rod lattices. The theory, in principle rigorous from a geometrical point of view, has been programmed for the IBM-7090 as the computer code PROCOPE. Calculation results for Dancoff correction factors and collision probabilities are compared with values obtained with other methods. The validity of the technique is also checked by evaluating the fine structure of the thermal flux distributions in various gas-cooled clusters upon which measurements have been made at Saclay. As a practical illustration, a series of curves describes the behavior of the various independent fuel-to-fuel collision probabilities in 19−(or 7−) pin gas-cooled clusters. Finally, approximate formulas are given for the pin-to-pin collision probability at both the white and the black limits.