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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.
F. P. Brady, J. L. Romero
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 318-331
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A29060
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The production of neutron beams for energies between ∼20 and 100 MeV is reviewed. Considerations for obtaining monoenergetic beams as well as some of the limiting factors, such as energy resolution, are examined. Production cross sections at 0 deg are reviewed for proton- and deuteron-induced reactions on light elements. Some current facilities in the context of neutron beams obtained by collimation, by the associate particle method, and by the use of a beam swinger are also discussed.