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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.
ARTHUR J. SHOR, HENRY T. WARD, DAVID MILLER, WALTON A. RODGER
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1957 | Pages 126-142
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25382
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Data obtained from three systems are presented and discussed in reference to the problem of radioactive carry-over in boiling reactors. Measurements of droplet carry-over have been made on a small scale laboratory boiling test unit and on a 600-psia loop under high purity water conditions using Cs137 tracer. Measurements have also been made on the Borax-III boiling reactor under actual operating conditions. Activation products present in the steam and condensate served as an indication of the radioactive carry-over. Analysis of the decay curves of the samples provided a means of differentiating activities carried as droplets from volatile radioactive carry-over.