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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.
Troy L. Becker, Allan B. Wollaber, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 155-167
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2653
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A new hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic technique is presented for simulating global particle transport problems, in which flux estimates are desired at all physical locations in the system. This technique has two steps: First, an inexpensive deterministic global estimate of the forward flux is obtained; then Monte Carlo is used to estimate the multiplicative correction to the deterministic flux estimate. We call the multiplicative correction to the deterministic flux the correcton flux, and the Monte Carlo particles that estimate this flux correctons. For deep-penetration problems, the correcton flux has significantly less spatial variation than the physical flux. Therefore, the Monte Carlo process automatically distributes correctons much more uniformly across the system than it distributes Monte Carlo particles for the original angular flux. In the "deep" parts of the problem, at locations far from the source, this results in a greatly reduced variance and a greatly increased figure of merit.