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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. Baldwin, J. C. Solem
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 281-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20384
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We show that upper bounds exist on the density of neutrons that can be moderated to a specified energy from an intense pulsed source of fast neutrons. Expressions are derived for the maximum density in the following cases: (a) a uniform infection of fast neutrons into an infinite moderator, (b) a localized central source in a finite heavy atom moderator, and (c) a point source in an infinite hydrogenous moderator. Correspondingly, upper bounds are given for the rates of single- and multiple-resonance neutron capture.