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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.
A. Paulsen, H. Liskien, F. Arnotte, R. Widera
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 377-385
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21371
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A measuring program has been carried out at the Van de Graaff accelerator facility of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements for the determination of (n, α) cross sections on the main constituents of fast reactor structural materials, namely the elements chromium, iron, and nickel. The alpha particles are detected in a reaction chamber by telescope counter arrangements at five observation angles between 14 and 141 deg. Results obtained in the energy range from 5 to 10 MeV are presented in terms of laboratory angle-differential cross sections, relative Legendre polynomial coefficients of angular distributions, angle-integrated cross sections, and average alpha energies.