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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.
Iván Lux
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 198-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18213
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Based on a simplified transport model, very simple and practical expressions are derived for approximately optimum regionwise importances in a Monte Carlo game with geometrical splitting. Minimum region dimensions where splitting is still efficient are also derived. The proposed expressions show good agreement with results from more advanced theories. Results of realistic Monte Carlo calculations back up the theoretical considerations.