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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.
Ricardo C. De Barros, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 199-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23719
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A numerical method that is free from all spatial truncation errors is developed for one-group slab-geometry discrete ordinates problems. The unknowns in the method are the cell-edge and cell-average angular fluxes, and the numerical values obtained for these quantities are those of the analytic solution of the discrete ordinates equations. The method is based on the use of the standard balance equation, which holds in each spatial cell and for each discrete ordinates direction, and a nonstandard auxiliary equation that contains a Green’s function for the cell-average angular flux in terms of the incident angular fluxes on the cell edges and the interior source. Numerical results are given to illustrate the method’s accuracy.