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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. W. Lyczkowski, J. H. Kim, H. P. Fohs, H. M. Domanus
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 183-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A22322
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An analysis was made of three-dimensional steady-state computations for the thermal mixing tests performed in the Oconee 1 pressurized water reactor at the beginning of fuel cycle 6 early in 1980 under the sponsorship of the Electric Power Research Institute. It was found that detailed modeling of the 52 asymmetrically located instrument guide tubes, together with the various structures in the lower plenum, yielded generally good agreement with the data (within 1°F). Most of the thermal mixing trends at the entrance to the core and midplane deduced from the 29-thermocouple reading were correctly computed.