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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.
Maria Do Carmo Lopes, Jorge Molina Avila
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 40-45
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23700
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The new approach for calculating neutron self-shielding factors taking into account isotropic multiple scattering, recently developed for the thermal region, is extended to epithermal resonance energies. The method is based on a collision function determined solely by the cross sections and the geometry of the probe submitted to the neutron field. The influence of the external field is separately included in the first collision probability distribution. Some advantages of the method with respect to the transport theory are discussed. Numerical results for the main epithermal resonances in cobalt and gold are presented, including the self-shielding factor as a function of the incident neutron energy.