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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.
N. Dytlewski, N. Ensslin, J. W. Boldeman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 4 | April 1990 | Pages 301-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23731
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A new neutron multiplicity counter has been developed that can provide International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors a means of verifying plutonium samples by a full neutron multiplicity analysis where conventional neutron coincidence counters yield outliers. This prototype detector comprises an array of 3He and liquid scintillator neutron detectors and is one of a new generation of multiplicity counters under development for nuclear safeguards. A moments analysis solution to the plutonium mass, (α,n) rate, and multiplication is calculated using the measured neutron multiplicity distributions, and an expression for the uncertainty in the multiplication-corrected mass has been derived.