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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.
E. Linn Draper, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 1 | October 1971 | Pages 22-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22332
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Four different epicadmium neutron flux spectra were produced by boron filter insertion in a beam port of the Cornell University 100-kW TRIGA reactor. The first spectrum was the unaltered (except for cadmium covers) fission slowing down spectrum; three hardened spectra were produced by the insertion of boron filters enriched in 10B. The shapes and amplitudes of the spectra were determined by the computer code SAND II to reproduce foil activation data obtained from a set of resonance and threshold detectors.