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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.
Hsiao-Kang Wang, Lawrence Ruby
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1975 | Pages 211-212
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26661
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In an earlier paper we proposed a method for the measurement of subcritical reactivity utilizing reactor noise. The theory has now been applied to the analysis of data obtained with the Berkeley TRIGA Mark III Reactor. A two-delayed-group approximation was found necessary to fit parameters in the expression for the variance-to-mean ratio of the neutron counting distribution. Results were found to be in good agreement with those from control rod calibrations.