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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.
Edward W. Larsen, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 4 | April 1981 | Pages 415-425
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A18954
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A perturbation formalism is developed for the first-order change in keff due to a small perturbation in the exterior shape of a reactive system. The analysis is developed for both diffusion and transport theory, and several numerical examples are given.
