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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.
Fred A. Kloverstrom, Richard M. R. Deck, Arnold J. Reyenga
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 3 | September 1960 | Pages 221-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25802
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A series of critical measurements on unreflected systems, fueled by thin enriched uranium (93.2%) foils, is described. Fuel density is varied by use of different foil thicknesses and spacings between foils. Five fuel densities have been used which correspond to atomic BeO/U235 ratios from 246 to 7660. For three of these ratios, the fuel foil thickness was varied to find effects of self-shielding and flux depression on the critical dimensions.