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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.
U. Farinelli, N. Pacilio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 36 | Number 1 | April 1969 | Pages 39-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A18855
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Pulsed-neutron experiments have been made on two organic-moderated and -reflected coupled cores of the ROSPO (a zero-power organic-moderated reactor) nuclear system in order to investigate their time response and to measure some kinetic parameters. At least for loose coupling, the fundamental mode has been observed to have two time-decay constants in any point of the system (except in the vertical symmetry plane), which are strongly interrelated. For two identical cores, these decay constants can give separate information on the intrinsic and coupling reactivity as well as on the reduced neutron lifetime of the system.