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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.
Richard Madey and Harold Shulman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 3 | June 1967 | Pages 353-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A28949
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A sevenfold integral expression is derived for the absorbed dose rate from the uncollided flux of gamma rays at the center of a spherical shell shield bombarded by an omnidirectional flux spectrum of protons. The general formulation is reduced to a fourfold integral on the basis of simplifying assumptions. This simpler formulation assumes that the gamma rays are produced isotropically by an isotropic proton flux, that protons penetrating the shell are not deflected from their original direction of incidence, that the spectrum and yield of photons are independent of proton bombarding energy, and that both the incident proton spectrum and the range-energy relation for protons in matter have power-law representations. A sixfold intergral expression is derived for the absorbed dose rate from the once-collided flux of gamma rays at the center of a spherical shell shield bombarded by an isotropic flux spectrum of protons. The once-collided differential (in energy) flux of photons at the shell center is given by a fivefold integral expression.