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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. C. Young, J. M. Neill, D. H. Houston, J. R. Beyster
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 1 | September 1965 | Pages 34-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19257
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Spatially dependent neutron-spectrum measurements have been made in both light and heavy water, using the General Atomic Linear Accelerator Facility and standard time-of-flight techniques. The measurements were made with varying geometrical arrangements, and both 1/v and resonance absorbers were utilized to simulate reactor poisons. The measurements were compared to calculations performed with an SN transport code utilizing the bound scattering models proposed for these moderators. The agreement between theory and experiment for the Nelkin model for H2O and Honeck&pos;s extension of this model to D2O is shown to be very satisfactory for the cases studied.