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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.
J. U. Koppel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 1 | May 1963 | Pages 101-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26480
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The method of singular eigenfunctions introduced first by Van Kampen and developed later by Case and Mika in connection with a one-velocity transport problem, has been adapted in order to solve the time and energy dependent infinite medium problem. The expansion of neutron density and scattering kernel in series of Hermite functions reduces the Boltzmann equation to a system of homogeneous Hnear equations. The resulting set of regular and singular eigenfunctions is shown to be complete (if w∑nonelastic is assumed to increase monotonically with the neutron velocity w) and explicit formulas are found for the normalization integrals and Green's function.