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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.
V. Spiegel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 54 | Number 1 | May 1974 | Pages 28-34
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23390
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The age of 252Cf fission neutrons to indium resonance energy (1.44 eV) was measured in water using a source encapsulated in a 7.6-mm-diam by 7.6-mm-high cylinder. The correction for the displacement of the moderator by the source was experimentally determined to be -0.13 cm2 or about -0.5% in approximate agreement with calculation. The distribution of indium resonance energy neutrons close to the source was measured to be Gaussian. The age measured for this experiment was 28.69 ± 0.39 cm2. An average energy for the 252Cf neutron spectrum of 2.21 ± 0.05 MeV is inferred from this age.
