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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.
J. Devooght, E. H. Mund, B. Arien, A. Siebertz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 2 | October 1984 | Pages 191-199
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A28403
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The numerical results that have been obtained for various reactor characteristics using the generalized quasi-static approximation for the study of fast reactor transients are analyzed. This approximation leads to a set of coupled nonlinear mixed boundary initial value problems for “amplitude” and “shape” neutron fluxes that are solved with a Newton-successive over-relaxation algorithm. Some details are given on the time integration module. Comparisons are established with the results obtained by other codes.