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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.
James W. Meadows
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 233-237
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27412
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The 240Pu-to-235U fission cross-section ratio has been measured at 55 discrete energies between thresh-old and ∼10 MeV using the 7Li(p,n)7Be and D(d,n)3He reactions as neutron sources. The sample masses were measured by (a) calculated specific activities and low geometry alpha counting, (b) by mass spectrographic isotopic dilution analyses, and (c) by comparing the relative thermal fission rates of one of the 235U samples with 240Pu samples containing ∼9% 239Pu.