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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.
Sergey I. Belousov, Krassimira D. Ilieva
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 126 | Number 2 | June 1997 | Pages 239-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24477
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A new adjoint synthesis (ASYNT) method is proposed for synthesizing a three-dimensional solution from two- and one-dimensional solutions of the adjoint neutron transport equation. Its correctness and fast run ability are appropriate for evaluating neutron irradiation for the VVER/pressurized water reactor pressure vessel—especially for surveillance sites located out of the reactor core midplane.The solution axial dependence in circular cylindrical geometry is the main approximation used. The ASYNT method could be reduced to the traditional synthesis method by some supplementary approximations. The solution for every type of reactor is obtained by calculating the adjoint neutron transport equation only once for each surveillance site.