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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.
Esam M. A. Hussein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 416-422
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23867
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Some approximate estimators for obtaining the fluence at a point in Monte Carlo neutron transport calculations are presented and compared with the commonly used next event estimator. These estimators do not require direct evaluation of the scattering probability using Legendre expansions of the differential angular cross sections. The estimators are particularly useful for Monte Carlo programs that sample scattering directions in the center-of-mass coordinate system.