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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 82-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23528
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A new uncertainty analysis method based on the generalized bias operator method is presented. The new method can be used for those cases in which the other uncertainty analysis methods cannot be applied, due to the lack of or the incomplete knowledge about the input parameter's uncertainties, or due to an inadequate model. The method presented can be applied in those cases in which at least one of the system's responses is measured and the accuracy of the measurements is better than the deviation between the measured and the calculated value obtained. The theory of the method is presented, as well as methods to obtain the special sensitivity matrices associated with the method.