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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.
Dušan Babala
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 243-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17474
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Formulas for interval distributions of neutron counts, which open possibilities for new methods of reactor noise measurements, are derived. The proposed experimental techniques promise to be less time consuming than the zero probability method of Mogilner and Zolotukhin. The useful information contained in a sequence of counts lies in its deviation from Poisson statistics. The magnitude of this deviation depends either on the counter efficiency or on the intensity of the external neutron source. From this point of view, the techniques of noise measurements can be divided into two groups: the “efficiency sensitive” methods (Feynman) and the “power sensitive” methods (Rossi-α). The proposed count-to-count interval distribution measurement seems to combine the advantages of both groups.