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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.
U. Salmi, J. J. Wagschal, A. Yaari, Y. Yeivin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 3 | July 1983 | Pages 298-300
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17799
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Several widely used neutron transport codes approximate the fission-source matrix by accepting only a single fission-neutron spectrum, regardless of how this spectrum is selected. This approximation introduces a needless calculational error. To overcome this flaw the difference between the correct and the approximate fission source matrices should be added to the scattering matrix. This significantly reduces the calculational errors in integral parameters calculated in the k formulation of the stationary transport equation and eliminates these errors altogether when the integral parameters are calculated in the other formulations of the equation. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate these points. The reactivity k, the average neutron energy , and the ratio are calculated for a JEZEBEL-like assembly using the standard and the proposed procedures.