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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.
Farzad Rahnema
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 320-326
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28581
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Expressions are derived for the first-order change in the fundamental eigenvalue of the neutron transport equation due to a perturbation in the boundary condition of the system. The perturbation formula is derived in the context of the energy-dependent transport theory and its diffusion approximation. Numerical examples are given in both transport and diffusion theory.
