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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.
B. T. Adams, J. E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 115 | Number 3 | November 1993 | Pages 253-264
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE115-253
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A two-grid acceleration scheme for the multigroup Sn equations with neutron upscattering is developed. Although it has been tested only in one-dimensional slab geometry with linear-discontinuous spatial differencing, previous experience suggests that it should be applicable in any geometry with any spatial differencing scheme for which an unconditionally efficient diffusion-synthetic acceleration scheme exists. The method is derived, theoretically analyzed, and computationally tested. The results indicate that the scheme is unconditionally effective in terms of error reduction per iteration and highly efficient in terms of computational cost.