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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.
L. W. Weston, R. Gwin, and G. deSaussure, R. R. Fullwood and R. W. Hockenbury
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 1 | October 1968 | Pages 1-12
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19361
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The neutron capture cross section and fission cross section for 233U have been measured simultaneously in the neutron energy range 0.4 to 2000 eV. A pulsed and collimated neutron beam was passed through a 233U fission chamber placed at the center of a large liquid scintillator. Capture and fission events in the 233U chamber were detected in the scintillator by means of their prompt gamma rays. Coincident signals from the fission chamber and liquid scintillator distinguished fission from capture events. Comparisons with previously published data, using similar and different methods, are given.