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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.
Edwin Norbeck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 412-414
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21376
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Fewer neutrons are produced from 11B(11B, n) than from 11B(p, n)11C for temperatures from 100 to 800 keV. For temperatures below 300 keV, 11B(d, n)12C produces more neutrons than either of these reactions if the normal isotopic mixture of hydrogen is used. Potentials generated by the double-folding method and tested against 7Li + 7Li data were used to generate 11B + 11B cross sections for energies where there were no measurements.
