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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.
S. Fiarman, R. Sher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 2 | June 1977 | Pages 208-212
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27029
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A Monte Carlo program, CDCUTOF, has been written to evaluate the cadmium cutoff energy of several cadmium-covered foils in pillbox geometries. Comparison with analytical results for simple geometries were also made. In addition, a general ansatz formula for roughly calculating the cadmium cutoff energy is given that agrees with analytical results to within 0.1 eV.
