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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. Halperin, G. D. O'Kelley, J. H. Oliver, J. E. Bigelow, and J. T. Wiggins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 3 | July 1985 | Pages 298-303
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17770
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Integral neutron capture and neutron fission cross sections have been measured for the 276-day 254gEs. Thermal cross sections and resonance integrals were evaluated using a cadmium filter technique. Capture cross sections were determined from alpha-particle spectrum measurements following neutron irradiations with cobalt flux monitors. Fission cross sections were measured using fission track detection techniques with 233U monitors. The fission cross-section values compared favorably with an absorption cross-section determination from a burnout experiment of 253Es-254Es. The integral neutron capture and fission cross sections determined for 254gEs are: = 28.3 ± 2.5 and Ic = 18.2 ± 1.5 b, and = 1970 ± 200 and IF = 1200 ± 250 b.