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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.
Makhan Singh, G. S. Brar, Gurmel S. Mudahar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 3 | July 1993 | Pages 214-218
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24034
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The transmitted photon spectra of133Ba, 137Cs, and 60Co sources are measured through different thicknesses of a soil medium. A multiple-scatter peak is observed at an energy of 100 keV independent of incident photon energy and thickness of the medium. The intensity of the peak decreases exponentially with the increase in thickness of the medium. A linear relationship between the effective atomic number of the medium and the multiple-scatter peak energy is observed.
