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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.
O. D. Simpson, M. S. Moore, F. B. Simpson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 187-192
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29089
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Neutron transmission measurements of U233 and U235 have been obtained from 0.02 to 0.08 ev. The 2200 m/sec total neutron cross section values have been calculated from a linear least-squares fit to the data in this region and found to be 587 ± 6 and 690 ±10 barns, respectively. The data were taken with the Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) fast chopper with an instrument resolution of 2 µsec/m. Experimental techniques, involving the use of a 1024-channel time-of-flight analyzer for measuring total cross sections at low energies, are described.
