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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.
Donald L. Smith, James W. Meadows, James F. Whalen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 77 | Number 2 | February 1981 | Pages 256-262
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21359
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Cross sections have been measured for the 19F(n, p)19O and 19F(n, α)16N reactions from near threshold to 9 MeV. The 238U(n, f) reaction was used as a standard for determining neutron fluence, and a cyclic activation technique enabled measurements to be made on the short half-life activities of the reaction products. The results from this work are compared with corresponding data sets from the literature. These measurements support, qualitatively, the previously reported structure in the excitation functions for these reactions.