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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.
J. J. Scoville, E. Fast, J. W. Rogers
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 1 | May 1966 | Pages 12-20
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17496
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Natural dysprosium was irradiated by 3 × 1021 n/cm2, more than twice that previously reported. The cross section relative to the initial value dropped to 35% for 1 × 1021 n/cm2, then varied more slowly to about 25% at the maximum exposure. Good agreement was obtained between theoretical calculations and experimental results, including the isotopic distribution in the irradiated samples. Thermal cross sections and infinitely dilute resonance-absorption integrals of five major isotopes and the natural element were measured and used in the above calculations. These values are tabulated below; Of note is significant resonance integral for 160Dy for which no parameters have been reported.