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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.
Robert C. Block, Donald R. Harris, Si Hwan Kim, Katsuhei Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 263-281
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21430
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron self-indication measurements simulating 238U capture in reactors have been carried out over the energy range from 3 eV to 3 keV using shielding samples at 77, 293, and 873 K. The data have been reduced to open and self-shielded capture yields provided on magnetic tape as benchmark data for comparison with nuclear design calculations. The important energy range below 100 eV has been analyzed in detail both to obtain improved resonance parameters for the levels at 6.67, 20.9, 36.8, 66.1, and 80.7 eV and to examine the accuracy with which cross sections are calculated from resonance formalisms. The improved resonance parameters, when used with an accurate but practical multilevel formalism, reduce by about one-half the long-standing discrepancy between calculated and measured 238U resonance capture integrals.