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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.
M. Wadle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 2 | October 1988 | Pages 89-104
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29019
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Experimental data are compared to calculations with a one-dimensional computer code (DUESE). In a systematic study, two-phase flow models (homogeneous and drift-flux) and empirical parameters in constitutive correlations of different code versions were tested. Special attention was given to the pressure rise in the diffuser, which could be calculated adequately only with the drift-flux correlation taken from the SOLA-DF code., Velocity data for choked flow conditions are compared to four different two-phase sound velocity models, which give the best agreement with the equilibrium sound velocity.