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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. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 455-462
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20632
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Monte Carlo calculations have been carried out in great detail on the reflection properties of concrete for fast neutrons. This paper presents the results for the differential angular dose albedo for various incident-beam conditions and touches upon some of the other distributions calculated. The following formula is offered to represent the calculated differential angular dose albedo to better than 10% for about 95% of the values obtained, and which can be used to extend the results to the entire hemispherical range for both incident and reflected neutron velocity vectors:
