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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.
Trine-Yie Dawn, Ing-Jane Chen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 2 | November 1979 | Pages 237-243
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-237
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Based on two properties of the discrete eigenvalues of the one-speed neutron transport equation with anisotropic scattering, we discuss the number and mathematical character of these discrete eigenvalues when the scattering function can be expanded into a finite series of Legendre polynomials. Such special cases as linearly and quadratically anisotropic scattering are studied in detail, and our results are plotted in parameter space. We also investigate the two physically interesting problems of isotropic scattering and linearly anisotropic scattering in the center-of-mass system. The discrete eigenvalues of these two problems are obtained numerically.