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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.
L. A. Beach, P. Shapiro, R. C. O'Rourke, W. R. Faust, B. Lepson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 1 | July 1959 | Pages 66-75
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25629
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By Fourier transform techniques the exact solutions of the one-velocity neutron diffusion problem for a uniform infinite medium with isotropic scattering have been derived for plane isotropic, plane parallel monodirectional, and plane parallel bidirectional source terms. These exact solutions in terms of Fourier inversion integrals were numerically evaluated upon the NAREC to give the angular distribution of the scattered intensity, the total scattered intensity, and the total intensity. By solving the integrals by contour integration in the complex plane, asymptotic solutions were obtained which are good approximate solutions for deep penetrations and problems with little absorption.