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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.
H. Liskien, R. Widera, R. Wölfle, S. M. Qaim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 266-271
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A22327
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For the first time, an experimentally determined excitation function for tritium production from beryllium has been obtained. Beryllium samples were irradiated with well-known fluxes of monoenergetic neutrons in the 12.86- to 19.57-MeV energy range and the induced tritium was quantitatively extracted and counted. The results disagree with the JEF-1 prediction but show a remarkably good agreement with JENDL-3/PR2 and a recent Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluation, both based on 14-MeV values and theoretical calculations.