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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.
Ashok Kumar, N. K. Saxena, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 24-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27000
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Propagation of neutron waves across a temperature discontinuity in an infinite graphite assembly is investigated using a two-group approach. The first slab is assumed to be of finite width and the second is taken to be infinite. It is seen that the presence of the second medium is felt in the first medium at a larger distance from the interface for waves of smaller frequencies. In the second medium, equilibrium is established at a distance that depends on the frequency of the wave. It increases with the approach of critical frequency, becomes very large for frequencies greater than the critical frequency, and decreases with further increase in the frequency.