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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.
Dermott E. Cullen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 4 | December 1974 | Pages 387-400
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-3
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The probability table method, developed for Monte Carlo calculations in the region of unresolved neutron resonances, is demonstrated to be of general use in neutron transport studies since the Boltzmann equation involved can be derived and solved by analogy to multigroup methods. Since the resulting equations can be cast into a form identical to that of the multigroup equations, they can be solved by existing multigroup transport codes. From a set of probability tables and spatially independent, unshielded, neutron cross sections, the method yields correct selfshielding effects, such as equivalent, spatially dependent, multigroup cross sections. Extension of the method and the use of probability tables outside the unresolved region are discussed.