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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.
H. Bjerrum Møller, F. J. Shore, V. L. Sailor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 3 | September 1960 | Pages 183-192
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-1
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The two neutron resonances in Er at 0.46 and 0.58 ev have been measured using samples enriched in Er166, Er167, and Er168. It was found that both resonances occur in the target nucleus Er167. The isotopic cross sections of Gd155 and Gd157 were measured from 0.02 to 0.30 ev and resonances were found in Gd155 at 0.0268 and in Gd147 at 0.0314 ev. Parameters for these resonances were derived by fitting the data to single-level Breit-Wigner formulae. Isotopic assignments were made for fifteen Gd resonances between 1 and 25 ev from previously unpublished data using samples enriched in 155, 156, 157, and 158. The Breit-Wigner parameters for three of these were obtained.