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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.
R. C. Koch, G. L. Grandy, J. A. Roll
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 2 | June 1961 | Pages 183-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25957
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Recently developed methods for separation and analysis of radioactive fission gases have been applied to obtain data for an off-gas system of an in-pile loop. A separate in-pile test facility was designed to provide a gas transport stream having fission products having concentrations simulating those anticipated in the off-gas system. Characterization of the radioactivities in this facility provided necessary pre-operational information and specifications for operational and analytical procedures for the off-gas system test.