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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. P. Phelps, R. Sher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 5 | September 1957 | Pages 676-678
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25434
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Values of the resonance escape probability in 0.387-in. diameter, 2% U235-98% Th232 light-water moderated lattices have been measured. The results are p = 0.821, 0.859, 0.889, 0.918, 0.937 for water/metal volume ratios 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4. These values are somewhat higher than corresponding ones measured in similar slightly enriched uranium lattices.
