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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.
L. F. Hansen, J. D. Anderson, R. J. Doyas, R. J. Howerton, T. Komoto, C. M. Logan, C. Wong, J. L. Kammerdiener
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 3 | November 1974 | Pages 345-348
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23461
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The neutron spectra emitted from 2 and 4 mean-free-paths of concrete irradiated by 14-MeV neutrons have been measured between 14 and 2 MeV using the sphere transmission and time-of-flight techniques. The spectra have been calculated with the Monte Carlo neutron transport code TART using the ENDL Livermore neutron library and the ENDF/B-III neutron library. From the comparison between measurements and calculations, it was inferred that the nonelastic cross section for oxygen in the ENDL library was too large. A revision of the cross sections for 14- and 14.6-MeV neutrons was carried out and resulted in very good agreement between measurements and calculations.