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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.
Patrick Blaise, Eric Fort
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 133 | Number 3 | November 1999 | Pages 235-257
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2085
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A methodology to adjust resonance parameters is developed and tested on the lowest-energy resonances of 238U, 240Pu, and 242Pu. It is shown that adjusting the basic nuclear parameters is the only consistent way to adjust infinitely dilute cross sections and to reduce the cross-section deconvolution problem. Taking into account the self-shielding effects enables us to treat different kinds of integral experiments (fast and thermal) and to achieve a statistically consistent adjustment. Also, the standard multigroup cross-section adjustment in the epithermal region can be interpreted as an indication of the required correction of an average reaction rate.