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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.
F. Corvi, G. Fioni, F. Gasperini, P. B. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 272-283
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23790
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A set of efficiencies and response functions for 18 gamma rays in the range from 0.2 to 8.4 MeV has been experimentally determined via a (p,γ) coincidence method for a neutron capture detection setup. This consists of two cylindrical deuterated hexabenzene (C6D6) liquid scintillators placed symmetrically and normally with respect to the beam and operated in sum mode. A pulse-height weighting function is derived from this data set and applied to the measurement of neutron capture in the 1.15-keV resonance of 56Fe relative to capture in the 5.2-eV resonance of 109Ag. A value of Γn = 62.9 ± 2.1 meV has been obtained for the neutron width, in good agreement with the value of Γn = 61.7 ± 0.9 meV from transmission measurements. The extension of the validity of this weighting function to samples of different thickness and composition is discussed.