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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.
Kenji Takeuchi, Michael Y. Young, Lawrence E. Hochreiter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 2 | October 1992 | Pages 170-180
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE112-170
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Wallis’ flooding correlation is generalized for both small and large pipes by the use of the critical Kutateladze number. A drift flux correlation is then obtained that is tangential to the generalized flooding curve. A simple function of void fraction for the correlation parameter is sufficient to provide good agreement with steam generator test data, without using flow regime maps. After the drift flux correlation is determined with the large-pipe test, it is implemented in the TRAC-PD2 computer code to be tested against the flooding curve for a small-diameter pipe. The Chexal-Lellouche formulas are also applied to the data analysis, and the results are compared with the present correlations. Discussion is extended to the Zuber-Findlay method of data analyses for the drift velocity and the distribution parameter, in relation to the flooding curve.