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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.
W. Rothenstein, J. Chernick
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 5 | May 1960 | Pages 454-457
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25744
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In many instances resonance capture of neutrons can be calculated by one of two basic approximations. The narrow resonance approximation is valid if the practical width is small compared with the maximum energy loss of a neutron in an elastic collision. If the reverse is the case, the absorber atoms may be regarded as infinitely heavy. There are cases of wide, weakly absorbing, resonances however in which neither of these methods is reliable. Examples of these are given. An alternative method for calculating resonance capture for such resonances is presented and compared with Monte Carlo calculations of the capture fraction in bismuth-graphite lattices.