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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. Palmer, J. P. Plummer, R. B. Nicholson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 50 | Number 3 | March 1973 | Pages 229-242
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A28976
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The methods for nonresonant cell homogenization in plate-type fast reactor critical assemblies are discussed and tested against high order Sn transport calculations in one-dimensional geometry. The methods tested show satisfactory agreement with transport calculations. The TESS calculations with bilinear flux-adjoint weighting are slightly preferred over flux weighting with either TESS or CALHET fluxes. Two different treatments of the leakage in the cell calculation lead to slightly different heterogeneity effects when calculated by flux weighting, but very little difference when calculated by bilinear weighting. A two-dimen-sional test problem gave some surprising results (negative heterogeneity factor) and has raised some unanswered questions.