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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.
Edward Fisher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 3 | July 1956 | Pages 222-238
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17854
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The streaming of neutrons in narrow channels through thick shields is treated theoretically, using one-velocity diffusion theory. Scattering by the channel walls is evaluated, and it is shown how the entrance and exit of a channel affects its streaming current. The cases examined are the straight duct, gap, and annulus, offsets for the gap and annulus, and bends for the duct and gap. In all cases simple, approximate formulas are obtained.