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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.C. Haight, J. Garibaldi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 296-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29057
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A rotating gas cell has been developed as a target for charged-particle beams to produce monoenergetic neutrons via the reactions 1H(t,n), 2H(d,n), 2H(t,n), 3H(p,n), and 3H(d,n). An intense monoenergetic neutron source results when this cell is equipped with a rugged entrance foil and pressurized to 1 MPa, and when a prolific source reaction such as 1H(t,n) is chosen. Neutron flux levels of typically 4 × 109 cm-2 ·s-1 between En = 8 and 12 MeV are being used to measure activation cross sections.