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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.
Erik Johansson, Erik Jonsson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 3 | July 1962 | Pages 264-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26162
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This report presents an extension of neutron spectra measurements with a fast chopper, previously described by Johansson et al. (1). As before, the investigation concerns spectra of neutrons scattered from various materials placed in the central vertical channel of the reactor R1. Special interest has been devoted to the epithermal region; in particular to the distortion of the spectrum caused by the fuel. For scatterers with heavy atoms it has thus been possible to observe “steps” in E ·Φ (E) at each one of the three lowest uranium resonances. The heights of these steps compare fairly well to calculations. The upper energy limit for the present measurements is about 10,000 ev. Some experiments using a heated scatterer have also been performed partly to check results published earlier.