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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.
M. Ishii, W. L. Chen, M. A. Grolmes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 435-451
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-3
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The motion and location of the molten clad during an unprotected loss-of-flow accident in liquid-metal fast breeder reactors are very important because of their effect on the reactivity and the subsequent fuel motion. The present study analyzes the clad relocation problem based on a single-channel film flow model and a simple thermal transient model for fuel pins. The motion of molten clad induced by sodium vapor streaming undergoes initial rapid upward acceleration, slowing down, flow reversal, and eventual slumping down into liquid sodium at the lower end of the heated section. A possibility for freezing of the molten clad at the unheated upper plenum region as well as bottom freezing and blockage formation were also included in the analysis. A sample calculation has been made for the case of R-series 7-pin tests in the Transient Reactor Test Facility. The agreement of the overall physical behavior of the clad motion with the post-test observations is quite satisfactory.