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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.
K. J. Yost, P. H. Pitkanen, C. Y. Fu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 39 | Number 3 | March 1970 | Pages 379-386
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19998
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Gamma-ray transition probabilities intended for use in the preparation of gamma-ray production cross sections have been calculated for four odd-A nuclei and compared with experiment. Wave functions used in the calculation of M1 and E 2 transition matrix elements were generated with a deformed shell (Nilsson) model code which allows for asymmetric quadrupole deformations. Inverse moments of inertia and deformations were treated as adjustable parameters. The collective gyromagnetic ratio was assumed to be a constant for all levels. The results suggest in the context of the simplified model an angular momentum dependence of the nuclear deformation.