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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. Ashraf Atta, D. N. Fry, J. E. Mott, and W. T. King
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 66 | Number 2 | May 1978 | Pages 264-268
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27209
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Fluctuations in the neutron flux caused by steam bubbles were analyzed to infer the average void fraction in the four fuel bundles that surround an in-core detector string in a boiling water reactor. The velocity of steam bubbles was inferred from the phase lag between axially displaced in-core fission detectors. This velocity, together with the measured power distribution and mass flow rate, was used to obtain the void fraction as a function of axial position. The results are in agreement with the predictions based on the Zuber et al. model, except near the top of the fuel channel.