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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.
John P. Church
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 1 | January 1965 | Pages 49-61
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21015
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The integral neutron-transport equation is solved for the space-dependent mono-energetic neutron density in a unit cell. By using step functions to represent the spatial dependence of the collision probabilities, one may rearrange the integro-differential transport equation in a special way such that the left-hand side contains only the leakage term and the term describing the total collision probability for the homogeneous medium of one region, k′, of the original problem. The Green's-function technique is then used to convert the integro-differential equation to an integral equation. Thus, although the resulting equation may be applied to a heterogeneous cell, the kernel of the equation depends only on the total collision probability in the particular region k′. Numerical results are presented for a two-region unit cell in slab geometry and compared with published results of DSN, PN double-PN and variational calculations. For unit cells that are of the order of two mean free paths or less in thickness, the zeroth-order spherical harmonic approximation for this method yields results comparable to very high order DSN, PN and double-PN calculations. Further, once the Green's function has been computed, additional cell calculations can be performed with relatively little additional computational effort.