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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.
Weston M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 381-393
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19096
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Continuous slowing down theory is applied to the treatment of the elastic moderation of neutrons in a fast-reactor assembly, where strong scattering resonances are prevalent. Three prescriptions for the moderating parameters, one of which is original to this paper, are studied. Continuous slowing down theory is demonstrated to yield quite accurate results for the neutron spectrum, when the improved prescriptions presented in this paper are used. A method for treating narrow resonance absorption separate from the slowing down calculation, then using the results of the former to attenuate the flux obtained from the latter, is presented and demonstrated to be promising.