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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.
Alain Kavenoky
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 209-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27152
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The CN method of solving the transport equation has been developed at Saclay during the past few years. This method is based on a lemma proved by Placzek; an integral equation is provided for the angular flux at the boundary of the various media, and its kernel is the infinite medium Green's function. Four plane geometry problems are solved in one-velocity theory, with a linearly anisotropic scattering kernel: the albedo for the Milne problem, the extrapolation length for the same problem, albedo and transmission factor for slabs, and the critical thickness for slab reactors. Numerical results are obtained and compared with data computed by reference methods.