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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.
W. L. Filippone, R. Conversano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 1 | January 1983 | Pages 75-89
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17991
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A two-dimensional Sn computer code was modified to enable the calculation of α eigenvectors. Entire sets of eigenvectors were determined for sample problems involving extremely coarse mesh structures. A large percentage of the higher harmonics were complex and, for a majority of the cases investigated, the eigenvectors were not complete. For these latter cases the generalized eigenvectors were found, which together with the ordinary eigenvectors do form complete sets. The simple cases analyzed thus far give considerable insight into the eigenvector structure of more complex systems.