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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.
Y. Navon (Fahima), Y. Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 2 | October 1988 | Pages 125-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A29021
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Generalized bias operators (GBOs) can be derived from the differences in the calculations of a nuclear system by two methods. One method is accurate and expensive and the other one is less accurate and less expensive. These GBOs serve to improve the accuracy of the less accurate methods for systems similar to the original one. Two applications are discussed. In the first application, diffusion-type calculations with GBOs give transport calculations quality results. In the second application, one-dimensional calculations with GBOs replace two-dimensional calculations. The method is applied for calculating the Zion-2 core.