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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.
Katsuhiro Sakai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 1 | May 1996 | Pages 57-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24212
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A locally exact numerical scheme (LENS) based on the concept of locally exact numerical differencing is presented. The essence of the LENS scheme consists in determining the coefficients of the difference scheme so that the resulting equation interpolating numerical fluxes at the control volume surface satisfies the analytical solution of transport equations with absorption and source terms. The spatial distribution of the coefficients of transport equations is taken into consideration based on a four-region model among three adjacent control volumes, in which continuous conditions for solutions are imposed on the boundary between two adjacent regions. An analysis of nonoscillation properties of the present LENS scheme was performed using the characteristic polynomial analysis method. It was found that the LENS scheme possesses the potential for nonoscillation properties for stationary convection-diffusion equations with absorption. The LENS scheme is examined through numerical experiments and shows stable and accurate solutions for transport equations with absorption and source terms.