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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.
Lung Kwang Pan, Cheng Si Tsao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 135 | Number 1 | May 2000 | Pages 64-72
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2125
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This work verifies the neutron flux for a modified zero-power-reactor facility using neutron activation. Ten foils are activated and counted to illustrate the precise neutron spectrum at a particular location inside the reactor core through the computerized software Spectrum Analysis by Neutron Detector-II (SAND-II). In addition, neutron spectra derived from 11 different locations are compared with the computational results from the WIMS reactor analytical software, respectively, and then the neutron distribution with various energy groups inside the reactor core is rearranged. A quantified index, AT, is also introduced to compare the experimental and computational results. In this work, the ATs are evaluated as 2.28 ± 0.48, which implies a slight discrepancy between the computational and experimental results. Moreover, a softer neutron spectrum evaluated by the WIMS calculation is verified by further examining the experimental data. Recommendations on how to apply the WIMS calculations are also offered.