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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.
C. D. Zerby and F. L. Keller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 190-218
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18261
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A review of the state-of-the-art of electron transport theory and calculations for electrons in the energy range below 10 MeV is presented. The basic interactions that influence the behavior of electrons are reviewed and theory and experimental results are compared wherever possible. The continuous slowing down model, the straggling model, and multiple scattering models are discussed and their use in thick-target moments method and Monte Carlo calculations is described. Results of the thick-target calculations are also compared with experimental results. Included in the review is a detailed description of the various complex-geometry electron transport programs presently being used.