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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.
M. Segev, S. Carmona
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 206-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18214
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Resonance integrals for lattices of annular rod absorbers can be accurately determined by ordinary equivalence relation procedures. This is demonstrated for water lattices of annular uranium rods whose inner cylindrical zone is either a void or is water filled. The equivalence cross section, needed to enable the use of tabulated homogenous integrals, is given by a formula recently developed. There are three parameters in the formula that need estimation: a Dancoff factor for the lattice, the probability of neutrons entering the inner rod zone to collide there, and a Bell factor. Ways and means to estimate these parameters are discussed and demonstrated. The interpolation of resonance integrals from entries in existing tables of homogenous integrals is performed with an accurate technique. Results of the equivalence-based calculations are compared with results by the integral transport RABBLE code.