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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.
Bobby Liley, Arthur G. Duneer, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 2 | August 1967 | Pages 189-197
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A18527
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A secondary-dose equivalent model for calculating secondary proton and neutron doses in arbitrary geometries is described. The random position of origin of the secondary-nucleon, primary-proton residual kinetic energy and secondary-nucleon kinetic energy, and survival weight at the point of generation of the secondary particles are determined by random sampling techniques. Results from this model are compared with the experiment of Maienschein and Blosser which measured the dose from a 160-MeV proton be am incident on an aluminum slab. The agreement is generally better than the state-of-the-art accuracy for secondary-dose calculations.