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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.
D. C. Wade, R. G. Bucher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 517-538
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27387
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Flux weighting for the generation of broad-group cross sections is designed to preserve eigenvalue, flux spectrum, and reaction rates; however, it will not preserve adjoint spectrum and reactivity worths. Bilinear (flux-adjoint) weighting preserves all of the above quantities except reaction rates. Bilinear weighting also makes the eigenvalue of the broad-group calculation less sensitive to distortions of the spectrum away from the fundamental mode over which the cross sections were collapsed than is the case when flux weighting is used. A series of 29- and 11-group numerical tests has been made to assess the size of errors (relative to a fine-group standard) in eigenvalue, reaction rate ratios, isotopic worth components, and spectral shapes resulting from the use of the two energy collapse procedures. The errors in adjoint spectrum and calculated worth of scattering materials are found to be large when flux weighting is used.