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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. Michelini
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 3 | March 1978 | Pages 532-539
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27183
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In the framework of the solution of the transport equation by means of diffusion techniques, an iterative procedure is presented that permits us to calculate the point-dependent diffusion coefficient, Dk(k = x,y,z), using standard diffusion codes. Numerical comparisons show that this procedure attains a flux distribution much closer to the transport distribution after one iteration than the classical diffusion flux. The time of the calculation is about twice that required by classical diffusion.