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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.
S. Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 3 | November 1965 | Pages 238-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19557
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The ability to interpret measured (n, 2n) cross sections by the statistical model of nuclear reactions has been tested. Good agreement was observed for 22 nuclei having mass numbers greater than 30. The statistical model was then applied to nuclei in this mass range to estimate both monoenergetic and fission-spectrum-averaged cross sections. The (n, 2n) reaction in structural materials contributes on the order of +0.1% to the reactor multiplication.