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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.
R. W. Schaefer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 2 | October 1989 | Pages 196-209
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-5
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Experiments done in several critical assemblies of the liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor type simulated core axial expansion, core radial expansion and bowing, coolant expansion, and control driveline expansion. For the most part, new experimental techniques were developed to perform these experiments. Calculations of the experiments basically used design-level methods except when it was necessary to investigate complexities peculiar to the experiments. It was found that these feedback reactivities generally are overpredicted, but the predictions are within 30% of the experimental values.