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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.
Eduardo A. Villarino, Rudi J. J. Stamm’ler, Aldo A. Ferri, Juan J. Casal
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 1 | September 1992 | Pages 16-31
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE112-16
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In HELIOS, a two-dimensional program for fuel assembly calculations, the geometric system can be partitioned into heterogeneous space elements. The transport of neutrons and gammas is treated by the CCCP method: current coupling (CC) of the space elements, which are internally treated by collision probabilities (CPs). The region-to-region, region-to-surface, surface-to-region, and surface-to-surface probabilities are evaluated. They are numerically integrated according to Carlvik’s method. It is illustrated that elaborate ray tracing and careful normalization prevent the instabilities that the CPs would otherwise suffer. The angular dependence of the interface currents introduces angular dependence into the last three of these probabilities. A reciprocity relation between region-to-surface and surface-to-region probabilities is derived for the individual angular sectors at the surfaces. Also, a new integral function is introduced, the partial Bickley function. An efficient evaluation method for both normal and partial Bickley functions is presented that reduces the computational time for the CPs by ∼20%.