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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., R. T. Santoro, R. L. Childs, J. M. Barnes, J. L. Lucius
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 3 | March 1983 | Pages 389-393
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17573
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Calculated and experimental results for the transmission gamma-ray spectra when ∼14-MeV neutrons are incident on a laminated slab configuration of stainless steel, borated polyethylene, and Hevimet (90 wt% tungsten, 6 wt% nickel, 4 wt% copper) were shown to be in substantial disagreement. The results of a cross-section sensitivity analysis (based on the two-dimensional model of the experiment used previously) are presented. In the analysis, only the nuclear cross-section data for the elements in Hevimet were considered. The cross-section sensitivities are found to be quite small, and it is unlikely that the disagreement is due to errors in the cross-section data used for the elements in Hevimet.