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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.
S. Van Criekingen, E. E. Lewis, R. Beauwens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 149-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-1
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A mixed-hybrid treatment of the spatial variables of the within-group neutron transport equation generalizes existing mixed and hybrid methods, combining their attractive features: the simultaneous approximation of even- and odd-parity angular flux components and the use of Lagrange multipliers to enforce interface continuity. A finite element spatial discretization and spherical harmonic angular expansions are used. We discuss rank conditions for the proposed methods and provide a new derivation of the Rumyantsev interface conditions. Even- and odd-parity interface continuity properties corresponding to these Rumyantsev conditions are established. We examine inclusion conditions and the interaction of the primal/dual distinction due to the spatial variable with the even/odd-order spherical harmonic approximation distinction due to the angular variable. Numerical solutions for both even- and odd-order spherical harmonic approximations are presented, and a promising enclosing property is observed in our results.