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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.
M. N. Moore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 5 | November 1959 | Pages 448-452
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25684
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A formalism is developed to calculate the power noise transfer function for any kinetic model under the assumption that noise may originate in any or all loops of the system. Reactor kinetic equations are generalized to the macrostochastic equations satisfied by the pile noise. From these, the differential equations of the various correlation functions are determined and solved for the noise spectra. The case of a single feedback, one-delay group model is treated in detail.