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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.
R. L. Macklin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 4 | August 1982 | Pages 520-524
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21441
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The 99Tc(n,γ) average cross section was measured at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator from 2.65 to 2000 keV with an estimated uncertainty ranging from 4.0 to 4.9%. Individual resonance parameters were fitted by least-squares adjustment to the capture yield data from 2.65 to 5.08 keV. The average cross-section data agree with the ENDF/B-V (Mod 1) evaluation above 900 keV and lie within ±15% of the JENDL-1 evaluation below 700 keV.