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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.
William T. Sha
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 3 | June 1971 | Pages 291-300
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20162
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A generalized model is presented for computing local void distribution, both radial and axial, in a light-water-moderated reactor channel. This model assumes that steam bubbles can be treated as free particles; thus, the continuity equation can describe the bubble motion. The model presented is considered to be particularly suitable for computer programming. It explicitly and simultaneously computes heat balance and conservation of mass, as well as void distribution. Furthermore, it provides sufficient flexibility to adjust constants in the equation so that any desired calculated void distribution can be obtained. Three existing pertinent void models constitute special cases of the proposed model.