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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.
P. R. Huebotter, W. R. Seitz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1959 | Pages 11-14
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A27322
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Loop studies have been made on UO2-NaK slurries at temperatures up to 1050°F. The maximum UO2 concentration was 4.15 volume per cent or 35 weight per cent at room temperature. A flow rate of 5.4 ft/sec was required to suspend all of the UO2 in this slurry at 1050°F. Lesser flow rates were required at lower temperatures. It was discovered that by installing a static cold trap, which was joined vertically upward from the lower horizontal leg of the loop, the slurry became more stable at the higher temperatures. The function of the cold trap is thought to be that of removing, from the circulating slurry, oxygen contamination which may have rendered previous attempts to maintain a stable suspension above 932°F unsuccessful. In the present study, the UO2 could be easily resuspended after prolonged settling.