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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.
Edward Garelis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 2 | February 1964 | Pages 242-245
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18324
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An improved pulsing technique is described that should simplify the experimental procedure in obtaining reliable pulsed data for both the α-measurement and the (kß/) technique. It is shown that an equilibrium pulse shape can be obtained by continuing the time-channel analyzer after the last neutron burst to record all of the neutrons arising from the delayed precursors and providing the recording starts simultaneously with the initial burst. The source strength (neutrons per burst) need not be constant.