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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
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 1 | September 1982 | Pages 47-63
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-1
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We consider the slab geometry discrete ordinates equations, with the weighted diamond, linear characteristic, linear discontinuous, and linear moments spatial differencing schemes. For each differencing scheme we derive a diffusion-synthetic, source-correction acceleration method which, for model (infinite medium, isotropic scattering, constant cross section, constant mesh spacing) problems, unconditionally reduces the spectral radius of the iteration method from the unaccelerated value of c (the scattering ratio) to <c/3.