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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. E. Stokes, R. P. Schuman, and O. D. Simpson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 1 | July 1968 | Pages 16-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20913
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The total neutron cross section of 182Ta has been measured from 0.01 to 1000 eV using the MTR fast chopper. The observed total neutron cross section at 0.0253 eV is 8200 ± 600 b. Parameters of individual resonances below 30 eV and average parameters at higher energies give a resonance absorption integral of 943 ± 50 b and a neutron s-wave strength function of (1 ± 0.1) × 10−4 (eV) 1/2. The possible use of 182Ta as a neutron temperature monitor is discussed.
