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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.
C. A. Anderson, Jr., T. J. Thompson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 474-480
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18766
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Energy spectra of neutrons leaking from the core tank of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology heavy-water-moderated reactor have been measured with a “fast” neutron chopper. The energy range 2 × 10-3 eV to 2 × 105 eV was examined for three different fuel configurations. The spectra are fairly well described as the sum of a Maxwell-Boltzman distribution and a dE/E slowing-down distribution. The energy resolution, ΔE/E, is less than 5% at energies below 100 eV and varies as E½ above 100 eV, while the probable error in current, ΔJ/J, is less than 10% at all energies.