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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.
G. R. Odette, T. O. Ziebold
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 1 | September 1972 | Pages 72-81
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22528
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An experiment was performed to measure the energy-dependent damage function for the neutron irradiation induced increase in the lower yield strength of iron. Small tensile test specimens were exposed at low temperatures (<100°C) to 1017 - 1018 n/cm2 (E > 1 MeV) in seven reactor spectra while a high degree of consistency among all other variables known to be significant was maintained. The neutron flux spectra in all locations were measured using the multiple foil activation technique and the SAND-II code for the data analysis. The mechanical property and flux spectral data were then analyzed using SAND-II to unfold the damage functions. Estimates of errors induced in the solution by the iterative unfolding procedure were made considering possible contributions from both the lack of mathematical solution uniqueness and data error propagation.