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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. L. Macklin, C. W. Alexander
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 258-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23724
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Uranium-236 neutron absorption is measured as a function of neutron time of flight from 20 eV to 1 MeV. The neutron flux is monitored with a 6Li glass scintillator. Average cross sections from 3 keV to 1 MeV are derived. Estimated uncertainties are <5% below 600 keV and increase to 9.5% at 1 MeV. From 20-eV to 4.2-keV neutron energy, 293 resonance peaks are parameterized.
