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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.
D. V. Gopinath, K. Santhanam, D. P. Burte
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 52 | Number 4 | December 1973 | Pages 494-498
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A23320
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The Anisotropic Source-Flux Iteration Technique (ASFIT) is a semianalytical method based on collision probabilities for energy-dependent radiation transport. In its original form, the coupled integral equations for space and energy-angle transmission were solved using discrete ordinate representation in space and energy and polynomial approximation in direction cosine for radiation flux and source terms. In this Note, the following modifications of ASFIT are presented: 1. discrete ordinate representation in direction cosine 2. sequential integration in space 3. exponential transformation in space 4. multiple energy structure for neutron transport. The Note discusses the rationale for these modifications, and their effect on the speed of computation, convergence, and capabilities of the code.