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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.
R. E. Maerker and F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 423-433
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18281
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Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out to determine the fast-neutron dose-rate distributions along the center lines of both a straight and a two-legged square concrete duct for a particularly demanding source geometry. The calculations incorporated doubly differential dose-albedo data for concrete which were previously reported. A comparison of the results of the calculations with those from a geometrically similar experiment shows good agreement, and places on a firm foundation the concept of treating the fast-neutron duct transmission problem as a reflection phenomenon at a point that is describable by the differential albedo properties of the walls.