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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.
K. Shure and Carl T. Oberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 348-359
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18274
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An irradiation exposure profile was calculated and subsequent experimental measurements using nondestructive dosimetry procedures were obtained for the reactor pressure vessel of the Portable Medium Power Plant (PM-2A). Near the core centerplane at the inner edge of the vessel, the maximum calculated exposure is 1.6 × 1019 n ≥ 1 MeV/cm2 and the maximum calculated activity from the 54Fe (n,p) 54Mn reaction is 1.9 × 107 dis/(cm3 sec) as of July 9, 1965. The average of calculated-to-measured 54Mn activity for 25 azimuthal locations at the core centerplane is 1.05. This agreement is within the uncertainties of either the calculated or experimental results.