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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.
Wei Shen, Zhongsheng Xie, Banghua Yin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 130-135
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24134
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Green’s function nodal expansion method (GNEM) is developed for the efficient numerical solution of the multidimensional neutron diffusion equation. It is an improved version of the nodal expansion method (NEM) and the nodal Green’s function method (NGFM). The node interior fluxes are approximated by a high-order polynomial expansion as in NEM. The nodal surface fluxes are coupled with the net currents by using the Green’s function method to improve accuracy. The GNEM computer code is encoded and tested. The numerical results demonstrate that GNEM has the same accuracy as NGFM while it is twice as fast as NGFM.