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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. A. Linenberger, J. D. Orndoff, H. C. Paxton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 1 | January 1960 | Pages 44-57
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25696
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Critical assemblies reported here consist of approximate spheres of enriched-uranium hydride composition (approximating UH3) in 8-in. thick normal uranium and nickel reflectors and in a uranium reflector with nickel liner. Data are of the following types: (1) critical sizes, (2) values of Rossi alpha in the neighborhood of delayed critical, (3) activation rates of various internal neutron detectors, and (4) reactivity coefficients of a variety of elements. From the reactivity coefficients at various radial positions, changes in critical mass corresponding to small changes in composition and density are computed.