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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.
J. C. Browne, R. W. Benjamin, D. G. Karraker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 166-170
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27138
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The differential neutron-induced fission cross section of 245Cm was measured from 0.01 to 35 eV at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 100-MeV electron Linac using ∼6 µg of 245Cm. The energy dependence of the cross section is non-1/v below 1 eV due mainly to a bound level. Normalizing to previous integral data, a thermal (2200 m/s) fission cross section of 2143 ± 58 b is obtained. Resonance parameters were extracted and are compared to previous results. Calculated values of the resonance integrals for fission and capture using these parameters are in good agreement with previous measurements.
