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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.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, J. Barish, F. S. Alsmiller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 162-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27404
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A model that includes fission for predicting particle production spectra from medium-energy nucleon and pion collisions with uranium nuclei has been incorporated into the nucleon-meson transport code HETC. A variety of calculated results obtained with this revised code for protons incident on uranium targets have been obtained and are compared with experimental data and with the calculations of other investigators. For incident proton energies 1 GeV, the calculated results are in good agreement with several, but not all, of the available experiments.