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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.
William K. Hagan, G. L. Simmons
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 35-41
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18706
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Monte Carlo calculations have been performed for neutrons reflecting between two Type 04 concrete plane-parallel interfaces. A new 23-group albedo data base (SAIL) was used in conjunction with the MORSE code to calculate the neutron spectrum at each reflection. It was found that, after thermalization, for the same order of reflection, the number of neutrons in the cavity is dependent on the initial energy of the neutrons. Typical results are presented along with a brief history of the motivations for these calculations.