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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.
M. Segev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 1 | September 1981 | Pages 113-118
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-2
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Equivalence principles reduce the lattice resonance integral of an absorber to I(σ), a resonance integral of the absorber in a homogeneous mixture with hydrogen, where σ is a microscopic cross section determined by the equivalence approximation. In practice, usually I(σ) is not a densely tabulated function; therefore, the need for an adequate σ interpolation arises. Two such interpolation schemes are found to be inaccurate for high and/or low σ values: the WIMS code interpolation , where a and b are determined from two tabulation entries I(σ2), I(σ2), and the 1DX code interpolation 1(σ) = I(∞) × (1 + A{tanh[B ln(σ) + C] − 1}), where A, B, and C are determined from three tabulation entries. The interpolation I(σ) = I(∞)[σ/(σ + η)]P is found to be accurate for all σ values. The determination of p and η involves solving a transcendental equation. An efficient technique for obtaining a numerical solution to the equation is given. In practice, the solution of the equation on a computer is virtually instantaneous.