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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.
A. H. Lumpkin, G. J. Berzins
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 3 | July 1982 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A20292
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An anomalous, transient increase in signals from a test fuel pin was detected by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Pinhole Experiment system during an experiment at the Transient Reactor Test Facility. The high resolution image data show that the anomalous increase is definitely not related to internal fuel motion, but appears to correlate with the motion of a transient control rod and related effects. The significance of this observation lies in the effect's magnitude and in the potential for misinterpretation of such an effect as fuel motion within the test capsule, an issue of primary concern in reactor safety studies.