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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.
L. W. FROMM , KERMIT ANDERSON
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1957 | Pages 160-169
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25384
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Recent experiments have indicated that some organic materials such as diphenyl may be sufficiently resistant to radiation damage to perform satisfactorily as coolants for nuclear reactors. These materials offer such advantages as low vapor pressure at high temperatures, lack of induced radioactivity, and low corrosion attack on fuel and structural materials. A collection of data on vapor pressure, density, specific heat, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and heat transfer film coefficient for diphenyl is presented as an aid to the reactor designer. Some experimental data on melting points and viscosities of mixtures of diphenyl with higher polyphenyls are also given.