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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.
W. J. Henderson, P. R. Tunnicliffe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 2 | February 1958 | Pages 145-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25456
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Measurements have been made of the fast neutron cross sections for the production of N16 and N17 in the uranium rod cooling water of the NRX reactor by the reactions O16(np)N16 and O17(np)N17. The N16 and N17 were detected by their gamma and fast neutron activities, respectively, in a continuously flowing sample of the effluent water from a uranium rod. The cross sections (fission neutron spectrum) for the reactions O16(np)N16 and O17(np)N17 are 1.85 ± 0.15×10-2 millibarns and 9.3 ± 0.9×10-3 millibarns, respectively.
