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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.
R. Dewan, M. B. Saddi, B. S. Sandhu, B. Singh, B. S. Ghumman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 141 | Number 2 | June 2002 | Pages 165-170
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2275
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The energy distribution of gamma photons scattered in double photon Compton scattering is measured experimentally for 0.662-MeV incident gamma photons. The two simultaneously emitted gamma quanta are investigated using a slow-fast coincidence technique. The experimental data on energy distribution do not suffer from inherent energy resolution of the gamma detector and confirm the continuous nature of energy spectra for the emitted photons. The present results are in agreement with the current theory of this higher-order process.