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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.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., K. C. Chandler, B. L. Bishop
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 1 | September 1972 | Pages 82-92
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22529
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A Monte Carlo transport code for calculating high-energy nucleon-meson cascades in thick targets is described. The calculational method uses an intra-nuclear-cascade-extrapolation-evaporation model for treating nonelastic collisions ≳3 GeV. Calculated results for the development of the cascade induced in thick iron targets by 10-, 19.2-, 29.4-, and 200-GeV/c protons are presented. For the cases of 10-, 19.2-, and 29.4-GeV/c incident protons, comparisons are made with experimental data and, in general, good agreement is obtained.