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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.
S. Shalev, G. Shani, Z. Fishelson, and Y. Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 259-266
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21141
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As part of a comprehensive project to investigate the validity of pulsed-neutron measurements in small systems, we have measured the extrapolation length in a pulsed light-water system with B2 = 0.11/cm2. Space- and time-dependent flux distributions were obtained with a miniature fission chamber and were analyzed by least-squares techniques. Special attention was paid to the extraction of the fundamental mode and to the overall internal consistency of the results. The thermal-neutron extrapolation length, corrected to 20°C, was found to be 0.300 ± 0.015 cm.