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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. B. Bigham, S. A. Kushneriuk, P. R. Tunnicliffe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 3 | July 1963 | Pages 299-314
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26533
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Fission cross section ratios of U233, U235, and Pu239 and capture rates in Mn55 and In115 have been measured in an NRX type uranium metal rod irradiated in a heavy water moderated reactor. The results have been compared to the values obtained using a model designed for NRX burnup calculations. Agreement was obtained using an “incurrent” spectrum composed of a Maxwellian thermal component and an epithermal component of the form obtained from neutron spectrometer measurements. Changes in spectrum caused by the light water coolant were also studied.
