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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.
A. V. Ignatyuk, V. P. Lunev, Yu. N. Shubin, E. V. Gai, N. N. Titarenko, W. Gudowski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 142 | Number 2 | October 2002 | Pages 177-194
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2298
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Investigations aimed at the development of neutron and proton cross-section evaluations for 232Th at intermediate energies in the range of 0 to 200 MeV are described. The coupled-channel optical model has been used to calculate the neutron total, elastic, and reaction cross sections and the elastic scattering angular distributions. Evaluations of the neutron and charged particle emission cross sections and of the fission cross sections have been obtained on the basis of the statistical description that includes direct, preequilibrium, and equilibrium mechanisms of nuclear reactions. The Kalbach parameterization of angular distributions has been used to describe the double-differential cross sections of emitted neutrons and charged particles in ENDF/B-VI format.