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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.
R. P. Gardner, M. Mickael, K. Verghese
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 51-63
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23525
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A new direction biasing approach to a target point and to finite detectors for Monte Carlo simulation is developed, presented, and tested. It properly accounts for the weight adjustments that must be made for the combined choice of a particular scattering (polar) and rotational (azimuthal) angle to obtain a given biasing angle about either a target point or a finite detector. Sample Monte Carlo simulations for a neutron transport problem with isotropic center-of-mass scattering and a gamma-ray transport problem with Klein-Nishina scattering have been done by both the analog and new direction biasing methods. The results indicate that the direction biasing approach is valid and will be very efficient for deep-penetration problems of these two types.