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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.
I. Toumi, D. Caruge
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 2 | October 1998 | Pages 213-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A2001
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A new numerical method for three-dimensional two-phase flow computations is presented. The method has been implemented within the FLICA-4 computer code, which is devoted to three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic analysis of nuclear reactor cores. This numerical method is based on a finite volume technique, where convective fluxes at cell interfaces are calculated with an approximate Riemann solver. A strategy for constructing this linearized Riemann solver, which extends Roe's scheme, to solve two-phase flow equations is described. Extension to a second-order-accurate method is achieved using a piecewise linear approximation of the solution and a slope limiter method. For advancing in time, a fully implicit integrating step is used. Some improvements performed to obtain a linearized implicit solution method that provides fast-running steady-state calculations are also presented. This kind of numerical method, which is widely used for fluid dynamic calculations, is proved to be very efficient for the numerical solution to two-phase flow problems.