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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.
Gerald Kamelander
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 4 | April 1983 | Pages 507-513
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18656
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The Monte Carlo theory provides a powerful tool for solving three-dimensional neutron shielding problems. Special variance reducing methods must be applied if the detector regions are very remote from the source region. Recently, an idea for a new scoring method was proposed to reduce an estimator for large distances between flux point and collision point to the standard flux point estimator. A Monte Carlo code based on this method was developed. This code was applied to the calculation of neutron doses, neutron spectra, and neutron fluxes produced by the detonation of an enhanced radiation weapon. The results may be considered as a test of the efficiency and as a first application of a new Monte Carlo method. The radiation doses reported in this Note only refer to neutrons. The gamma-ray radiation doses due to neutron capture reactions are not considered.