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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.
Andre Mockel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 1 | July 1967 | Pages 51-57
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17809
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Numerical results for the time asymptotic neutron flux in a pulsed experiment, and for the thermal utilization factor in an infinite slab lattice, are derived using invariant imbedding. An isotropic separable kernel is assumed. It is shown that, though the neutron spectrum is strongly dependent on the shape of the kernel and thus cannot hope to be accurately predicted with a separable kernel, the qualitative behavior is in good agreement with previous computations. Moreover, some other features (the angular dependence of the flux, and the thermal utilization factor) are shown to have less dependence on the thermalization model, and are thus accurately predicted.