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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.
G. R. Hennig
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1958 | Pages 514-528
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25489
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It is shown that the production rate of electron traps during fast neutron bombardment of graphite can be determined by comparing its properties with those of chemically doped graphite. A value of 9 × 10−5 trap per equivalent megawatt day unit of reactor bombardment is obtained. This comparison also shows how the scattering of the carriers is affected by bombardment. The validity of the conclusions which are reached depends upon certain assumptions concerning anisotropy and heterogeneity, which are explored in rather considerable detail.