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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.
R. A. Schrack, O. A. Wasson,D. C. Larson, J. K. Dickens, J. H. Todd
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 114 | Number 4 | August 1993 | Pages 352-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24044
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Relative cross-section measurements for the 10B(n, α1γ)7Li reaction were made using the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator Laboratory neutron source. The cross sections were measured by observing the 478-keV photon using an intrinsic germanium detector. The neutron flux was monitored with a high-efficiency plastic scintillator. Monte Carlo calculations were used to provide multiple-scattering and neutron-attenuation corrections to the data. The measured cross sections differ as much as 40% from the ENDF/B-VI evaluation for incident neutron energies greater than 1.5 MeV.
