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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. G. Cochran, D. E. Feltz, J. D. Randall, J. V. Walker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 2 | October 1964 | Pages 138-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A28927
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A useful and inexpensive assembly for thermal-neutron-flux standardization is described. This assembly consists of a water filled tank containing three Pu-Be neutron sources, each located at an apex of an equilateral triangle with sides of 5.6 inches and appropriately centered in the tank. The thermal flux is spatially invariant and isotropic over a rather large region in the test section and thus reduces the effects of positioning errors of foils and detectors being calibrated. Methods for standardizing such an assembly are discussed.