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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.
N. Papmehl, Hans J. Zech
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 4 | April 1972 | Pages 435-448
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22435
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An explicit formulation of the one-velocity order of scattering method for neutrons is developed assuming plane geometry and anisotropic scattering. Calculations for the half-space albedo problem based on this method were performed for isotropic scattering and were checked against known results. Further numerical studies of reflection and transmission of slabs yield detailed information about the order of scattering needed for a desired accuracy and for given thickness and absorption of the slab. For slab thickness up to one mean-free-path eighth order of scattering is shown to yield deviations from exact values of <1%.