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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.
S. P. Monahan, W. L. Filippone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 201-216
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23785
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An integral discrete ordinates method designed for use on modern, large-memory, vector and/or parallel processing supercomputers has been developed. The method is similar to conventional Sn techniques in that the medium is divided into spatial mesh cells and discrete directions are used. However, in place of an approximate differencing scheme, a nearly exact matrix representation of the streaming operator is determined. Although extremely large, this matrix can be stored on today’s large-memory computers for repeated use in the source iteration. Since the source iteration is cast in matrix form, it benefits enormously from vector and/or parallel processing, if available. Several electron transport test results are presented demonstrating a reduction in numerical diffusion and elimination of observable ray effects.