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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.
Charles N. Kelber
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 2 | June 1965 | Pages 244-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20242
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It is possible to derive a correction to the mean chord length used in the Wigner Rational Approximation which 1) gives a better estimate of the escape probability 2) preserves the equivalence relationship for each resonance 3) preserves the value of the resonance integral. Various methods of achieving objectives 1 and 2 have been discussed previously. It is shown in this paper that employing criterion 3 dictates an averaging procedure similar to earlier ones but involving different weighting points. A table of weighting points is given.