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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.
S. Pahor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 1 | January 1968 | Pages 110-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18013
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The method for solving time-independent one-speed half-space transport problems, which was explained in earlier papers, is applied to find the emerging distributions for the albedo and Milne problems for thermal neutrons with the isotropic degenerate kernel. By using the principle of invariance and the reciprocity theorem, these distributions are expressed in terms of the H-matrix. This matrix is a generalization of the one-speed Ambarzumian-Chandrasekhar H-function and satisfies a nonlinear integral equation. The conditions, which uniquely determine the physical solution of this equation, are derived. At the end, the possibilities for calculating the H-matrix by iteration are discussed.