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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. M. Reynolds, S. M. Sperling, W. E. Selph
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 42 | Number 3 | December 1970 | Pages 324-334
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A21221
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High resolution measurements have been made of the gamma-ray spectrum produced in liquid nitrogen by a 14-MeV neutron source. The spectra of gamma rays from neutron inelastic scattering were measured to a distance of six feet by pulsing the source. Comparison of the inelastic photon flux with discrete ordinates calculations using ENDF/B neutron cross sections and recent gamma-ray production cross sections shows good agreement for the strong well-resolved lines. The results of unfolding the continuum part of the spectrum reveal a flux of high energy lines that is a sizable fraction of the total flux of resolved lines. These normally unresolved gamma rays account for part of the gap in the nitrogen nonelastic cross section.