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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.
Gilbert Epstein, James Biffer, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 3 | July 1976 | Pages 288-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26885
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Continuous neutron slowing down theory, as generalized to incorporate inelastic scattering, has been combined with integral transport theory by use of the separable kernel analogy. The result is a matrix form of continuous slowing down theory where the matrices involved are direct generalizations of the scalar quantities encountered in continuous slowing down theory. The approach has been applied to the calculation of space-dependent spectra in uranium and iron single-region problems and in two-region problems involving uranium and iron. In general, very good agreement with more precise calculations is obtained.