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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.
W. B. Amian, R. C. Byrd, C. A. Goulding, M. M. Meier, G. L. Morgan, C. E. Moss, D. A. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 1 | September 1992 | Pages 78-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23953
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Differential (p,xn) cross sections are measured for 800-MeV protons incident on thin targets of depleted uranium and of natural beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, aluminum, iron, cadmium, tungsten, and lead. Measurements for neutron energies from 0.3 to 800 MeV are made at angles of30, 60, 120, and 150 deg. Time-of-flight techniques are used to determine the neutron energy spectra, and particular effort is made to identify and discriminate against background contributions. Comparisons of the experimental data with calculations using the high-energy transport code (HETC) intranuclear-cascade evaporation model show good agreement for the heaviest elements (tungsten, lead, and uranium), but significant discrepancies exist for the light elements, especially in the evaporation region.