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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.
W. Rothenstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 4 | April 1976 | Pages 337-349
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26836
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Uranium fueled thermal-reactor lattice benchmarks, as well as some other experimental assemblies, were analyzed with ENDF/B-IV data and calculational techniques based on integral transport and SN methods together with Monte Carlo calculations in the resolved resonance region. Only a relatively small overprediction of the 238U resonance events—∼3 to 4%—remains when the present version of the ENDF/B data is used. It accounts for a considerable part of the ∼1% underprediction of criticality. Uranium-235 resonance absorption was found to be influenced noticeably by shielding due to the 238U resonances. For both 235U epithermal and 238U fast fissions, the agreement between calculation and experiment, although relatively good, showed greater fluctuations than in the case of the 238U capture. Calculated temperature variations of material buckling with temperature were greater than in the measurements, especially near room temperature, but the discrepancies were smaller in the critical than in the exponential assemblies.