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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.
E. A. Plassmann, D. P. Wood
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 615-620
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25849
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The thickness of reflectors required for critical configurations with spheres of U233 and Pu239 have been estimated from multiplication measurements of nearly critical assemblies. Reflector materials employed were uranium enriched in U235, normal uranium, beryllium, and tungsten alloy. Correction of the experimental data has been attempted to give “idealized” dimensions, i.e., a solid core in intimate contact with its reflector material.