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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.
P. K. Sarkar, M. A. Prasad
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 3 | June 1979 | Pages 243-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20146
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Integral equations are derived to provide the expected statistical error in any biased Monte Carlo transport calculation. The equations result from a generalization of a recent formulation by Amster and Djomehri. The present treatment is general enough to handle situations where more than one particle emerge from a collision with distribution in the statistical weights. These formulations have been used to obtain the variance and the number of collisions per history in a few Monte Carlo schemes using exponential transform. The schemes considered include procedures such as splitting, weighting in lieu of absorption, and next-event estimation. Optimization of different procedures as well as their comparative merits are discussed for a sample one-group problem.