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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.
Stanley C. Fultz
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 6 | Number 4 | October 1959 | Pages 313-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A28850
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A two-group analysis has been applied to the transient behavior of the thermal flux in a subcritical assembly which has been given a short burst of fast neutrons. This analysis has been applied to graphite-U235 reactors having moderator-to-fuel (C/U) atomic ratios of 600, 1200, 2340, and 9550. The results are shown to be in agreement with measurements of the decay of thermal neutrons when short pulses of fast neutrons are incident on assemblies having these C/U ratios.
