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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.
H. L. Garabedian and R. E. Lynch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 4 | April 1965 | Pages 550-564
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A18799
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This study is concerned with two-group reactor kinetics in a multi region reactor for problems which involve time-dependent coefficients and nonlinear terms. The method of solution described can be used in problems in which the cross sections are given as linear combinations of powers of the fluxes or as powers of the integrated fluxes. Numerical integration schemes are suggested to solve this class of problems. Included in the possible inherent shutdown mechanisms of a reactor is the Doppler broadening of absorption resonances. It is this particular phenomenon that is used in a Model Problem to illustrate techniques that may be used to solve a much wider class of problems. The Model Problem is based on two-group diffusion theory, with one group of delayed neutrons, in a multi region slab reactor. The results obtained are readily extensible to cylindrical and spherical geometries in one space variable.