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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.
Eckart Viehl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 56 | Number 4 | April 1975 | Pages 422-427
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE75-A26687
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Analytical expressions describing the measured auto- and cross-spectral densities of the zero-power noise at the Measuring and Research Reactor Braunschweig (FMRB) were derived from the two-point reactor kinetics equations. By means of this theory, the following properties of the two fission zones of the assembly were obtained from measurements: (a) the shutdown reactivities of the isolated cores, (b) the coupling reactivity, and (c) the power in the fission zones. The efficiencies of the detectors, needed to evaluate the properties mentioned, were obtained from these measurements also. Furthermore, the influence of the delayed neutrons-which were neglected when estimating the properties of the FMRB—on the coherence function is shown. This function was used to detect coupling effects in extended cores.