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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.
S. T. Perkins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 3 | March 1966 | Pages 284-290
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17640
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The neutron spectrum equations are investigated for regions in which the neutron source includes both volume and surface components. The results are thereby applicable to reflected cores and reflector regions. The spectrum is analyzed in the volume-integrated P1 approximation. The difference from the corresponding bare-core relations is an additional source, plus the redefinition of the leakage parameter. It is shown, with the approximation of diffusion theory, that the leakage parameter is always nonpositive. Several simplified forms are also developed for this term. A numerical calculation is presented to show the details of the procedure, and the results are compared to a multiregion analysis.