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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.
M. Čopič, T. Kalin, G. Pregl, F. Žerdin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 1 | May 1964 | Pages 74-79
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19790
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The thermal-neutron diffusion constant was measured in a plexiglas system with empty channels, using the pulsed-neutron-source technique. From separate sets of measurements on rectangular blocks, the diffusion constants parallel and perpendicular to channels were determined, whereas the measurements on cubes give the average diffusion constant. The results are compared with existing theoretical estimations. It is found that the average diffusion constant is well below the theoretical predictions of Behrens. On the other hand, the difference between the parallel and the perpendicular diffusion constant is almost as large as predicted theoretically.