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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.
Yamato Asakura, Makoto Kikuchi, Shunsuke Uchida, Hideo Yusa, Minoru Miki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 1 | October 1979 | Pages 117-120
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19316
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The deposition of suspended iron oxide in water at a 10-atm pressure during nucleate boilings on a Zircaloy heated surface has been studied. The effects of pressure on the deposition rate during the initial period have been investigated. The previously proposed iron oxide deposition model, based on the microlayer evaporation and dryout phenomena that occur in the nucleate boiling bubble at atmospheric pressure, is extended to high-pressure nucleate boiling conditions. The model is shown to be applicable for high-pressure studies.