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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
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 3 | June 1968 | Pages 302-312
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20212
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Measurements have been made of the anisotropy of neutron slowing down in Al-H2O plate lattices. The moments of the slowing down distribution from fission to 1.46 eV were determined in the two characteristic directions at two volume ratios using the point-source, point-detector method. For the 1:1 case, with an Al plate thickness of 0.25 in., the ages parallel and perpendicular to the plates were 65.4 ± 0.8 and 60.8 ± 0.8 cm2, respectively, giving an anisotropy of 1.076 ± 0.02. In the 2:1 (A1:H2O) case, with an Al thickness of 0.50 in., the corresponding values are 100.3 ± 1.5 and 92.5 ± 1.3 cm2, giving an anisotropy of 1.085 ± 0.02. The higher moments were characterized by higher anisotropics.