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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.
L. W. Weston, J. H. Todd
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 3 | July 1983 | Pages 248-259
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17793
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The ratios of the neutron fission cross sections σf(240Pu)/σf(239Pu), σf(240Pu)/σf(235U), and σf(239Pu)/σf(235U) have been measured simultaneously with a multiplate ionization fission chamber using the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator as a neutron source over the neutron energy range from 5 keV to 20 MeV. The 240Pu ratio data are in overall agreement with ENDF/B-V with exceptions in relatively narrow neutron energy regions. Below 150 keV and from 10 to 20 MeV, the present 239Pu/235U fission ratios indicate significant discrepancies when compared to ENDF/B-V. These ratios are important for thermal and fast reactor applications.
