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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.
M. Yamagiwa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1997 | Pages 218-222
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24268
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Production of 18F, a positron emitter, with fast protons from D-3He fusion reactions and oxygen (18O) impurities in a large tokamak is studied numerically. A high-energy deuterium beam is used for proton production enhancement. The yield of 18F is found to be optimized in a somewhat dirty plasma with an effective ionic charge number of Zeff ∼ 5 and doubled by the inclusion of the possible resonance in the 18O(p,n)18F reaction. The yield in the deuterium beam-injected 3He plasma is 1000 times larger than by standard methods using a cyclotron. A comparison is also made with the yield in an advanced plasma regime.
