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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.
Masatoshi Fujishiro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 4 | December 1973 | Pages 474-481
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23315
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The intensities of the weak 2158- and 2505-keV gamma rays following the β‾ decay of 60Co were measured by applying the photonuclear reactions 9Be(γ,n) and 2D(γ,n). The results obtained were I(2158) = (2.0 ±1.3) ×10-5 I(2505) = (0.9 ± 0.7) × 10-7 photons per decay of 60Co. The present result for I(2158) agrees with other data found in the literature within stated errors, whereas that for I(2505) is significantly smaller than previous estimates. From the present value of I(2158), the rate B2 and logarithmic comparative half-life log f2t2 of the second-forbidden unique β‾ decay, which is intimately related to this intensity, was estimated as B2 ≤ (15.0 ± 9.8) × 10-3% and log f2t2 ≥ , respectively.