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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 3 | December 1995 | Pages 483-491
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24149
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The independent fission product yields obtained from the fast fissions of 232Th, 233U, 235U, 238U, 239U, 240Pu, and 241 Pu were found to be correlated to the 2Z-N values of these isotopes. Examples of these correlations are presented. In these examples, the chain yields of 135Xe and 149Sm, the important isotopes in the dynamics of nuclear reactors, are included. The correlations obtained can serve to predict the independent fission product yields from important actinides that have no experimental results so far. These correlations can also serve to point out errors in current evaluated yields.