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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. R. Bond, C. E. Siewert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 277-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21143
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An expression for the disadvantage factor for a two-region heterogeneous cell in plane geometry has been obtained within the structure of one-speed neutron transport theory. The scattering in the fuel region has been assumed isotropic; however, to describe more accurately the scattering in the moderator, a two-term kernel has been used. The analysis is based on Case's normal-mode expansion technique and leads to a set of Fredholm equations for the unknown expansion coefficients. Numerical solutions, obtained by solving iteratively the Fredholm equations for the expansion coefficients, are given for several sets of parameters.