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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.
J. T. Mihalczo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 49 | Number 4 | December 1972 | Pages 489-504
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22568
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Cylinders and cylindrical annuli of uranium metal (93.15 wt% 235U), with diameters varying from 7 to 15 in., were assembled to delayed criticality with graphite reflectors varying in thickness up to 18 in. or with an effectively infinite thickness polyethylene on all outer surfaces. In one series of measurements a polyethylene reflector was also placed adjacent to only one flat surface of the cylinders. The multiplication factor calculated by both Sn transport and Monte Carlo methods, with various sets of cross sections agreed very well with the experimental values. As a result of the high order of Sn and the large number of spatial intervals required, the computing time for the transport theory calculations was a factor of 10 larger than that required for the Monte Carlo calculations with standard deviations of 1%.