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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.
E. E. Lewis, R. Pfeffer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 3 | March 1967 | Pages 581-585
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17625
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A formalism based on the Dirac chord method is extended from a previous paper to provide an analytical method for determining the properties of small fission-fragment sources of arbitrary convex geometry. The fragment escape probabilities, energy spectra, and energy deposition fractions are determined for spherical, slab, and cylindrical uranium-dioxide sources, using an energy-loss model that contains initial-energy spectra and range-energy relations for 42 fragment species. For comparison, calculations are also made, using two simplified energy-loss models. Finally, a method is given for generalizing the results to sources containing materials other than uranium dioxide.