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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. Takeda, E. Wachi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 4 | August 1982 | Pages 551-557
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21445
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An approximate method for calculating the interference of neutron streaming between different regions (drawers) in fast critical assemblies is described by applying the well-known Benoist formula to super cell problems. The interference effect on the diffusion coefficient was numerically evaluated and the results are compared with those obtained by Yoshida’s method. Sodium void worths in control rod positions (control rod follower channel) relative to the sodium-filled channel are calculated on the basis of diffusion theory with the interference effect and compared with the results obtained from transport calculations. The comparison reveals that the inclusion of the interference effect improves the calculational accuracy remarkably.