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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.
J. H. Kittel, S. Greenberg, S. H. Paine, J. E. Draley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 4 | July 1957 | Pages 431-449
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25408
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Three corrosion-resistant uranium-base alloys, U-3 weight per cent Nb, U-5 weight per cent Zr-1½ weight per cent Nb, and U-3.8 weight per cent Si (U3Si) were irradiated to burnups of 0.1 atomic per cent or less. Observations were made of irradiation-induced length changes in specimens of the alloys as influenced by the method of fabrication and heat treatment, and of changes in aqueous corrosion resistance resulting from irradiation. It was found that the uranium-niobium alloy was unsuitable from the standpoint of dimensional and surface stability, and its corrosion resistance was destroyed by irradiation. The uranium-zirconium-niobium alloy could be nominally stabilized under irradiation and its corrosion resistance was destroyed by between 0.046 and 0.074 atomic per cent burnup. The uranium-silicon alloy was relatively stable under irradiation and showed no increase in corrosion rate at 290°C after 0.090 atomic per cent burnup, although cracking occurred after several days corrosion testing.