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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.
Gert Van den Eynde, Robert Beauwens, Ernest Mund
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 300-309
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2664
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The boundary source method is an integral method introduced in the late 1960s for solving one-dimensional one-velocity transport problems arising in cell calculations. This method was further developed in various ways since that period and found to be of particular interest for recent applications to nodal transport codes. We have developed a boundary source code in plane geometry that allows for anisotropic scattering of arbitrary high order, and it is the purpose of this paper to display the extreme accuracy of this code, showing hereby that the boundary source method is probably the most accurate transport solution method available today for solving piecewise homogeneous transport problems.