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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. Marseguerra
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 16-26
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26618
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The probability generating function of the counts obtained in an arbitrary sequence of time intervals and counters is derived in the framework of the one-velocity point-reactor model without delayed neutrons. The main feature of the method is that the multiple derivatives of the probability generating function, which provide the joint probabilities and the joint moments, can be easily calculated from recurrence relations. The procedure is well suited to computer programming, and, indeed, a Fortran IV program has been written. Some conditioned probability profiles and moments thereby obtained are reported.