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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.
R. S. CASWELL, R. F. GABBARD, D. W. PADGETT, W. P. DOERING
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1957 | Pages 143-159
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25383
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The attenuation of 14.1-Mev neutrons in water has been studied under conditions simulating an isotropic point source of monoenergetic neutrons in an infinite water medium. The migration area of thermal neutrons (〈r2〉th/6) was found to be 156 ± 6 cm2. The “age” of indium resonance neutrons was measured to be 150 ± 6 cm2. Fast neutron dose measurements are in agreement with the theoretical calculations of Goldstein et al.