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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.
J. J. McInerney
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 4 | August 1964 | Pages 458-460
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19004
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Some exact expressions for the diffusion length are found by using the set of eigenfunctions recently derived for the monoenergetic neutron transport equation. The results are not restricted to any specific degree of anisotropy and are valid for an arbitrary amount of absorption in the medium. A closed-form solution is found for the roots of the familiar equation
