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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.
C. F. Coleman, F. A. Kappelmann, B. Weaver
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 507-514
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25836
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Extraction with a tertiary amine in hydrocarbon solution is recommended for recovery of the technetium and neptunium that can accumulate in uranium fluorination plant residues, together with recovery of the uranium for recycle. A single-cycle process provides coextraction of these three elements and separation by consecutive stripping, giving good recoveries and relatively high mutual separation. The chemical flowsheet has been tested through the stage of continuous countercurrent demonstration in laboratory scale equipment using a commercial tertiary amine to process actual plant feed solution.