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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.
G. C. Pomraning, Anil K. Prinja
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 116-122
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2022
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Two different numerical procedures are suggested for evaluating a previous analytic result for the scalar flux for the pencil beam problem with screened Rutherford scattering. The first of these is an asymptotic evaluation of a divergent integral, and the second is based upon an asymptotic expansion method due to Molière. Both are relatively simple algorithms, and comparisons with each other and with benchmark Monte Carlo results are given to establish the accuracy of each.