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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.
K. Bingham Cady, Melville Clark, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 491-507
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18768
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A calculational method for Boltzmann's one-velocity, isotropic scattering transport equation is developed for cylindrical rods. The starting point is Peierls' integral equation, and the technique may be interpreted as a moments method or a variational method. Numerical results in the form of graphs are given for a set of standard problems. These problems include volume sources, surface sources, and the critical rod problem. For arbitrary, axially symmetric sources inside or outside the rod, a knowledge of the uncollided flux is sufficient to determine the escape probability from the rod in terms of these standard problems.