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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.
Chia-Jung Hsu, George C. Lindauer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 1 | April 1968 | Pages 16-29
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18819
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The influence of axial conduction on thermal entry-region temperature distribution and heat transfer in Hartmann's flow through a magnetohydrodynamic channel is analytically investigated. Viscous dissipation and Joule heating are also considered in the analysis. The temperature solutions, which are found to be Peclet number dependent, reduce to those corresponding to negligible axial conduction as the Peclet number approaches infinity. The appropriate first 12 eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions have been determined for Hartmann numbers of 1, 4, and 10 and for a wide range of Peclet numbers. The series expansion coefficients, applicable to an arbitrary value of the heat-generation parameter, have been evaluated for a few electric-field magnitude factors of practical importance. By employing the computed constants, the effect of the electric-field magnitude factor and the heat-generation parameter as well as axial conduction on the local temperature profiles and Nusselt numbers are examined and reported.