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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.
Melvin M. Levine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 9 | Number 4 | April 1961 | Pages 495-499
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25913
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The equal charge displacement rule has been used for estimating yields of some important fission products. The results are not appreciably different from previous estimates but the present method increases the reliability of the values. Using recent yield values, thermal and resonance effects of gross fission products have been calculated and compared with measured effects in an irradiation experiment by Gunst, McGarry, and Scoville as well as with previously calculated values.