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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.
N. F. Shoemaker, C. M. Huddleston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 1 | January 1964 | Pages 113-115
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18147
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Treatments of the differential dose albedo of gamma rays on concrete have supposed that the albedo value is a function of the energy of the incident gamma radiation, the polar angle of incidence, the polar angle of reflection, and the azimuthal angle of reflection. It is demonstrated here that, if certain assumptions (which appear reasonable) are made regarding the mechanism of reflection, it is not necessary to investigate variations in albedo with azimuthal angle of reflection. Once differential dose albedo has been determined for a complete set of incident and reflected polar angles with zero azimuth, albedo at any azimuth can be derived by a suitable transformation.