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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.
Andreas Pautz, Adolf Birkhofer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 3 | November 2003 | Pages 299-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2385
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A new neutron transport code for time-dependent analyses of nuclear systems has been developed. The code DORT-TD is based on the well-known Discrete Ordinates code DORT, which solves the steady-state neutron transport equation in two dimensions for an arbitrary number of energy groups and standard regular geometries. For the implementation of time-dependence, a fully implicit, unconditionally stable time integration scheme was employed to minimize errors due to temporal discretization. This requires several modifications to the transport equation and the extensive use of sophisticated acceleration mechanisms. The convergence criteria for fluxes and fission densities had to be strongly tightened to ensure the reliability of results. We also allowed for cross sections varying with time to couple neutronics and thermal hydraulics calculations. The neutronics code was finally applied to a research reactor to show its capabilities for both slow and fast transients.