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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.
Randal S. Baker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 107-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-124
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Discrete ordinates transport packages from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are required to perform large computationally intensive time-dependent calculations on massively parallel architectures, where even a single such calculation may need many months to complete. While Koch-Baker-Alcouffe (KBA) methods scale well to very large numbers of compute nodes, we are limited by practical constraints on the number of such nodes we can actually apply to any given calculation. Instead, this paper describes a modified KBA algorithm that allows realization of the reductions in solution time offered by both the current and future architectural changes within a compute node.