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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.
Y. Gur, S. Yiftah
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 202-210
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26660
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Basic nuclear data libraries, such as ENDF/B-III, are used today for the generation of multigroup cross-section sets. Since the multigroup sets are determined by calculating the weighted averages of the cross-section curves, knowledge of the weighting function within each group is required. In principle, this function is not only dependent on the specific reactor, but is also a function of position in the reactor. With existing codes and methods the weighting function in the Bondarenko-type library is not iterated, since each time the weighting function is changed, a code that handles the basic data library and consumes much computer time must be run.