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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.
E. M. Fournie, A. B. Chilton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 1 | October 1980 | Pages 66-69
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-2
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Monte Carlo calculations have been made for the penetration of slab shields by gamma radiation of monoenergetic character. The radiation is in the form of parallel, broad beams incident on the front face of the slab at various angles having cosines between 0.25 and 1.0. The beam photon energies vary between 0.661 and 6.13 MeV. The slab thicknesses extend to 10 mean-free-paths. The results are provided in the form of tables and graphs for exposure transmission buildup factors as a function of slab thicknesses. Comparison with previous work shows good agreement; however, this work goes somewhat beyond previous contributions.