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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.
Shi-Ping Teng, Duaine G. Lindstrom
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 363-366
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19953
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The criticality constants of fissile solutions containing borated Raschig rings are evaluated using the Monte Carlo code KENO IV with various geometry models. In addition to those used by other investigators, a new geometry model, the random geometry model, is presented to simulate the system of randomly oriented Raschig rings in solution. A technique to obtain the material thickness distribution functions of solution and rings for use in the random geometry model is also presented. Comparison between the experimental data and the calculated results using the Monte Carlo method with various geometry models indicates that the random geometry model is a reasonable alternative to models previously used in describing the system of Raschig-ring-filled solution. The random geometry model also provides a solution to the problem of describing an array containing Raschig-ring-filled tanks that is not available to techniques using other models.