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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.
Juan J. Manzano-Ruiz, David Gordon Wilson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 3 | November 1984 | Pages 275-286
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A18582
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A test rig was built to run steady-state experiments with air/water mixtures at low pressure (42 kPa), and to determine the performance characteristics of two-phase flow through a centrifugal pump. Application is to a loss-of-coolant accident situation in nuclear reactor power plants if a large break in one of the primary pump legs took place. Two feasible accident conditions were tested; first- (forward flow and rotation) and third-quadrant (reverse flow and rotation) conditions. A significant head-pump degradation process was observed in the first-quadrant operation for increasing amounts of gas supplied, whereas in the third quadrant no difference in performance was detected with respect to single-phase flow and up to an inlet volumetric quality of 20%. The data gathered have been correlated in terms of a defined head-loss ratio, flow coefficient, and volumetric quality, which facilitates its use in predicting pump performance in similar designs of different scale.