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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.
M. J. Barrett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 2 | October 1962 | Pages 186-191
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A28119
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The gamma current intensity (flux) and the gamma emission (leakage) of a homogeneous, spherical medium are derived by inserting a source spectrum in the Boltzmann transport equation. In the range of photon energies from 0.5 Mev to 10.5 Mev, Compton scattering by electrons of the medium dominates the energy degradation of photons, so that one may use Klein-Nishina cross sections for the transfer kernel. Lumping the flux into energy groups permits an approximation of the transport equation as a matrix equation. Numerical solutions for the flux and leakage spectra, found by inverting the matrix equation, agree well with the results of previous theoretical studies.