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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.
D. Graham Foster, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 2 | August 1960 | Pages 148-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25790
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The age to indium resonance of nearly monoenergetic 0.97-Mev neutrons from spherical Na-γ-Be sources has been measured in water and kerosene. The age from a point source is inferred by extrapolation from measurements made with sources ¾ and ⅜ in. in diameter. The flux age is 13.9 ± 0.2 cm2 in water and 13.8 ± 0.2 cm2 in kerosene. Calculations by the moments method give 13.9 ± 0.1 cm2 in each medium, in excellent agreement with the measurements. The thermal migration area measured concurrently is 21.5 ± 0.4 cm2 in water and 20.6 ± 0.4 cm2 in kerosene. The migration area calculated from the resonance age is 22.2 ± 0.5 cm2 in water and 21.8 ± 0.5 cm2 in kerosene. Both of these are substantially larger than the measured values.