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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.
T. F. Wimett, H. C. Paxton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 425-431
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21379
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A critical assembly with circulating enriched uranium solution was operated for brief periods at power up to 2 MW corresponding to a core temperature differential of 13°C. Although delayed neutron precursors were swept out of the critical region, contributing little to control, power followed excess reactivity satisfactorily. At excess reactivity of 0.2 dollar, power oscillations began to appear, and above ∼0.5 dollar they diverged. The 1-s period appears to be associated with vibration of unconstrained piping. Reactivity quench coefficients are greater than those measured without flow. The difference is attributed to macroscopic release of radiolytic gas.