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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.
Philip F. Palmedo, Henry H. Windsor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 3 | June 1971 | Pages 388-397
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20169
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Two types of measurements of flux fine structure were performed in simple, plate, fast reactor cells. In the first type, studies were made of the rate at which the fine structure approached equilibrium when test cells were placed in an equivalent homogeneous medium. It was shown that caution must be exercised in applying an infinite plane model to the calculation of heterogeneity effects in plate cells of finite dimensions. In the second type of measurement, detailed activation distributions were measured in a series of cells as a basis for the evaluation of cross sections and calculational models.