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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. W. Dyos and A. Keane
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 4 | December 1966 | Pages 530-533
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18424
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The convergence of the iterative procedure for solving the slowing down equation is examined. It is found that the rate of convergence of the iterative procedure depends on the ratio of the resonance scattering and absorption cross sections, being rapid if the resonance is predominantly absorbing. The method of Goldstein and Cohen for treating intermediate resonances is carried to the third approximation, and numerical results are obtained for the 192-eV resonance of 238U in a 1:1 mixture with hydrogen.