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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.
Bernard I. Spinrad, James S. Sterbentz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 4 | August 1985 | Pages 431-441
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A18491
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The Wigner-Seitz cell problem is treated by integral transport theory as a superposition of black boundary problems using the volume source and sources equivalent to the two lowest order angular components of the reentrant flux. This treatment sheds light on the convergence properties of iterative integral transport solution methods. The outgoing flux is required to have the lowest order components equal and opposite to those of the reentrant flux. Sample problems with this P11 boundary condition give good results. A new approximation to neutron transport theory is also reported. This approximation does not rely on expansion or approximation of the angular flux distribution, but rather on approximating the integral transport kernel by a sum of diffusionlike kernels that preserve spatial moments of the kernel. This might permit transport problems to be treated as a set of coupled diffusion problems in any geometry.