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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.
Chien C. Lin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 4 | August 1988 | Pages 390-393
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23567
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The radiolytic gas production rate in boiling water reactors has been reevaluated. The results of recent measurements of the dissolved gases in the main steam samples agree very well with the average production rate measured from the off-gas samples. The best estimate total gas (H2 and O2) production rate is 19.3 ± 0.06 cm3/s-MW(thermal)−1, and the average O2 content in steam is 17.5 ppm. The observed G(H2) and G(O2) values in the reactor core are estimated to be 0.24 and 0.12 molecule/100 eV, respectively.
