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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.
E. Saji, H. Shirayanagi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 52-56
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24128
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Critical experiments that used high-concentration mixed-oxide (MOX) fuels in boiling water reactor lattice configurations and that were performed in the VENUS International Program are analyzed with CASMO-4 (C-4) /SIMULATE-3 (S-3). Both heterogeneous full-core transport calculations by C-4 and nodal diffusion calculations by S-3 with single-bundle CASMO-4 constants are performed, and the obtained results, such as eigenvalues and pin power distributions, are compared against the measured results. The agreement between the calculations and the measurements is quite satisfactory, and a good predictive capability of C-4 and S-3 for MOX fuels is verified.