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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.
H. N. Knickle, P. B. Daitch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 404-416
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19099
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The time-dependent transport equation in plane geometry has been solved numerically using the double spherical harmonics angular approximation and first-order finite differences. The monoenergetic case has been shown to meet both necessary and sufficient conditions for stability for reasonable values of the time step. The convergence and wave front propagation characteristics of the difference scheme have also been checked in special cases and found to be satisfactory. A computer program has been written to solve the difference equations of the multienergy, multiregion problem. Monoenergetic and multigroup calculations have been made which compare qualitatively with experimental results.