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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.
Jim E. Morel, Alejandro Gonzalez-Aller, James S. Warsa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 168-178
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2654
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A lumped linear-discontinuous spatial finite element discretization of the Sn equations in r-z geometry on triangular meshes is derived and computationally tested. An asymptotic analysis indicates that the scheme preserves the thick diffusion limit and behaves well with unresolved boundary layers. Computational results are presented that indicate the scheme is second-order accurate in the transport regime and that confirm the main predictions of the asymptotic diffusion-limit analysis.