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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. L. Macklin, D. M. Drake, J. J. Malanify, E. D. Arthur, P. G. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 2 | October 1982 | Pages 143-150
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A28697
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Neutron capture cross sections have been measured for 169Tm from 3 to 2000 keV at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator 40-m station. The data were analyzed for individual resonance parameters up to 4.2 keV. Average strength functions have been deduced. Compound nucleus calculations, made with deformed optical model parameters, agree with experimental cross sections. Our cross sections for lower neutron energies tend to be somewhat less than those from earlier measurements.