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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.
S. Bznuni, N. Baghdasaryan, A. Amirjanyan, G. Nazaryan, P. Kohut, J. Ramsey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 186 | Number 1 | April 2017 | Pages 98-102
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1273012
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Bounding axial profiles for WWER-440 spent fuel pool burnup credit analysis were developed. A database of axial burnup profiles of WWER-440 type fuel assemblies and fuel followers was developed and studied to determine the burnup axial profile that results in the maximal neutron multiplication factor. Bounding axial profiles were determined based on the statistical analysis of keff of the analyzed profiles from the statistical outliers of the axial profile database. The influence of the identified bounding profiles on keff is quantified for the WWER-440 spent fuel pool. Criticality calculations using the database axial profiles were conducted by the MCNP6.1 program. The isotopic compositions of the spent WWER-440 fuels were quantified by the ORIGEN program of the SCALE 6.1 package.
