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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.
R. M. Brugger, L. W. McClellan, G. B. Streetman, J. E. Evans
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 2 | February 1959 | Pages 99-104
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25562
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A new spinning sample method has been used to measure the energies of beryllium-filtered neutrons scattered at 90° to the beam by samples of water, ethyl alcohol, n-amyl alcohol, benzene, paraffin, and zirconium hydride. The energy distributions from all samples show that an appreciable number of scattered neutrons gain energy. The zirconium hydride and water were measured to compare the spinning sample method with other methods of measuring inelastic scattering. The hydrogenous liquids were investigated to see if the scattering data could be correlated with known molecular properties and with proposed scattering theories.