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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.
James Grundl, Arthur Usner
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 598-607
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25847
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The responses of the activation detectors P(n, p), Al(n, p), Fe(n, p), Al(n, α), and Cu(n, 2n) to the neutron spectra at the center of the bare U235 and Pu239 critical assemblies, Godiva and Jezebel, are the basis of a precision comparison of these two spectra above 2 Me v. Results, interpreted in terms of the spectral function E1/2e–βE, show that the average energy of this component of the spectrum in Godiva is 4.7 ± 0.8% lower than in Jezebel. From some preliminary measurements a close resemblance to the corresponding fission neutron spectra is indicated in this energy region. Results of photoplate measurements in the leakage spectra of both assemblies are considered and briefly analyzed. A discussion and determination of effective thresholds is appended.