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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.
Taofeng Wang, Guinyun Kim, Young Do Oh, Moo-Hyun Cho, In Soo Ko, Won Namkung
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 2 | June 2016 | Pages 286-297
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-64
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Measurements of neutron total cross sections of palladium in the energy region from 0.2 to 120 eV have been performed by using the time-of-flight method at the Pohang Neutron Facility. A group of high-purity natural palladium metallic plates with thicknesses of 0.5 and 1.0 mm is used for the neutron transmission measurement. Resonance parameters of 104Pd, 105Pd, 106Pd, 108Pd, and 110Pd in the neutron energy range below 120 eV were extracted from the transmission ratios by using the multilevel R-matrix SAMMY code. The present results are compared with the evaluated data from ENDF/B-VII.1 and previous experimental data. The statistical analysis for nearest-neighbor level spacings in 105Pd has been carried out to compare with the Wigner distribution.
