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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.
M. H. Kalos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 2 | June 1963 | Pages 227-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26504
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It is proposed that importance sampling may be carried out using an approximate analytic form for the importance function. An altered Boltzmann kernel may then be computed. Choosing from this altered kernel is facilitated, in part, by particle splitting. The method is carried out in detail for neutron penetration in hydrogen slabs. Results are given for dose buildup and energy spectrum for slab depths up to 179 mean free paths for 8.1 Mev neutrons.