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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.
R. L. Macklin, J. Halperin, R. R. Winters
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 182-191
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20409
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Neutron capture by stable palladium isotopes has been measured by time-of-flight techniques at the Oak Ridge Linear Electron Accelerator up to the inelastic 2+ level thresholds for the even isotopes (except 102Pd) and up to 750 keV for the important fission product 105Pd. Resonance parameters were extracted from resolved peaks up to a few keV. Average cross sections for the pure isotopes were derived by linear combinations of the yields from partially enriched samples. Strength functions were fitted to these data in the energy range from 2.6 to 112 keV.