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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.
Sukhpal Singh, Gurmel S. Mudahar, Ashok Kumar, Kulwant Singh Thind
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 159 | Number 3 | July 2008 | Pages 338-345
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE159-338
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The two media method used to determine the linear attenuation coefficients of irregularly shaped samples without the knowledge of the thickness of the sample has been verified. The linear attenuation coefficient values of regularly and irregularly shaped flyash material samples have been measured by the two media method using five different materials as media. The obtained values of the linear attenuation coefficient were compared with the results of the standard narrow beam gamma-ray transmission method. The results were in good agreement.
