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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.
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 149 | Number 2 | February 2005 | Pages 138-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE05-A2485
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Spatial discretization methods have been developed for the low-order quasi-diffusion equations on coarse grids and corresponding homogenization procedure for full-core reactor calculations. The proposed methods reproduce accurately the complicated large-scale behavior of the transport solution within assemblies. The developed discretization is spatially consistent with a fine-mesh discretization of the transport equation in the sense that it preserves a set of spatial moments of the fine-mesh transport solution over either coarse-mesh cells or its subregions, as well as the surface currents and eigenvalue. To demonstrate accuracy of the proposed methods, numerical results are presented of calculations of test problems that simulate the interaction of mixed-oxide and uranium assemblies.