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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.
Floyd E. Dunn, Martin Becker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 66-82
Technical paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A28421
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Continuous neutron slowing down theory has proved useful in problems associated with thermal reactors. There are, however, two principal problem areas which inhibit obtaining the full benefits of continuous neutron slowing down models in fast reactor problems. One problem area is the treatment of inelastic scattering. The second problem area is the treatment of scattering and absorption resonances in a mixture of several moderating materials. In this paper, new methods are advanced for each of these problem areas. These methods are shown to lead to a continuous neutron slowing down model of reasonable accuracy for fast reactor problems. The inelastic treatment is based on matching the solution for an easily solvable reference problem (the zero absorption case). The mixture treatments (several are considered) are based on averaging procedures over a scattering interval instead of at a single energy.