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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.
Jack M. Hochman, Charles F. Bonilla
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 434-442
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20629
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The electrical resistivity of high purity liquid cesium was determined in a pressurized furnace from 600 to 3000°F (316 to 1649°C) by measurements of the electrical resistance of a Ta-10%W alloy tube, both empty and filled with cesium. The resistivity found for the lower temperatures agrees moderately well with previously published results, the discrepancy decreasing at the highest temperatures. The thermal conductivity of liquid cesium was calculated from its resistivity using a Lorenz number of 2.3 × 10−8 (V/deg K)2. By comparing the cesium data with a reduced resistivity vs reduced temperature curve for mercury, the critical temperature of cesium is found to be 3190 °F (1754 °C), with a corresponding critical pressure of 130.8 atm from an available vapor-pressure correlation.