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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.
Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 2 | October 1991 | Pages 128-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A28512
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A model calculation of neutron activation cross sections is carried out with SINCROS-II for all stable isotopes of molybdenum. Results of the calculation are compared with experimental data, which were measured over the wide range from threshold to 20 MeV. The general agreement between the calculated and experimental cross sections is good, but some cross sections remain in significant disagreement. The calculational method is applicable to the estimation of production cross sections for the long-lived radioactive nuclides.