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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.
I.-W. Yu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 157-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17876
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The finite element solution of fluid/structure interaction problems is considered for a class of acousto-elastic problems where the fluid is linear acoustic and the structure is linear elastic. The finite element formulation in terms of fluid pressure and structural displacement results in a system of unsymmetric equations. Due to the complexities of eigensolution for large systems involving unsymmetric matrices, little progress has been reported. Recently, Yu showed that the real form of QZ algorithm can be used for solving small unsymmetric eigenproblems of fluid/structure interaction, and, as a major advance, now presents the use of the subspace iteration method, in conjunction with the QZ algorithm, for solving large fluid/structure systems. The computational procedure is similar to that for the real symmetric case, and the procedure can easily be adopted by any finite element code.