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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.
R. R. Spencer, H. Beer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 390-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26900
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The neutron capture cross section of 59Co has been measured in the energy range from 6 to 200 keV using an 800-ℓ liquid-scintillator detector in conjunction with a pulsed 3-MV Van de Graaff generator as a neutron source. The excellent time resolution of the system, full width of 2.8 nsec at half maximum, permitted derivation of radiation widths for single s-wave resonances to 50-keV neutron energy. Average radiation widths of 0.564 ± 0.024 eVand 0.486 ± 0.016 eV were found for seven J = 3 resonances and ten J = 4 resonances, respectively. No significant correlation between and Γy was found for either spin state. The Maxwellian-averaged cross section for kT = 30 keV was found to be 38 mb over the region from 0.0253-eV to 200-keV neutron energy.