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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.
Luisa F. Hansen, John D. Anderson, Eugene Goldberg, Ernest F. Plechaty, Marion L. Stelts, Calvin Wong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 227-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21138
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Neutrons emitted from pulsed spheres have been measured as a function of time in order to stringently test input parameters and computational assumptions in neutron transport calculations. Using the sphere transmission technique in conjunction with the time-of-flight facilities at Livermore, measurements have been made for 0.5, 1.3, and 3.0 mfp of carbon, and for 1.0 mfp of nitrogen, using a 15.3-MeV pulsed neutron beam. The measured neutron time spectra have proved to be sensitive, not only to the magnitude of the elastic and inelastic neutron cross sections, but also to the shapes of their angular distributions. The analysis of the data has been done using the Livermore Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Program (SORS). To obtain agreement with the data, a revision of some of the cross sections and respective angular distributions was required, which resulted in a dramatic improvement in the quality of the fits to the measured time spectra.