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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.
Wm. Bradley Lewis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 1-5
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18136
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A calorimeter has been built whereby the amounts of power dissipated in each of three units are made equal. The power due to the interaction of a unit with gammas, and that due to interaction with neutrons, is determined from the electric power supplied to each unit and known parameters of the system. Three units composed of two materials are necessary and sufficient for this type of measurement.