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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. N. Kelber, L. C. Just, N. F. Morehouse, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 3 | November 1961 | Pages 285-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A26005
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In reactor kinetics problems where it is desirable to take the space dependence of reactor flux into account, the time dependent diffusion equation must be solved. The solution of this equation on an analog computer requires a large amount of equipment. If the equation is written the form, where the volume integral of the divergence of neutron current has been replaced by the surface integral of the current, then a large reduction in the number of mesh points and consequently in the amount of equipment is possible. An example is given and compared with the flux distribution computed on a digital machine.