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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. K. Fox, L. W. Gilley, J. H. Marable
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1958 | Pages 694-697
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25504
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The critical thickness of proton moderated and proton reflected slab-shaped volumes of aqueous solutions of UO2F2 enriched to 93.2% in U235 were measured at chemical concentrations near that required for minimum critical volume. These data yield 1.76 ± 0.07 in. as the minimum critical thickness of an infinite slab of the materials of the experiment at a concentration of 532 g U235/l This result is compared with a three-group two-region analysis of the infinite slab.