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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.
Hugh D. Selby, Susan K. Hanson, Daniel Meininger, Warren J. Oldham, William S. Kinman, Jeffrey L. Miller, Sean D. Reilly, Allison M. Wende, Jennifer L. Berger, Jeremy Inglis, Anthony D. Pollington, Christopher R. Waidmann, Roger A. Meade, Kevin L. Buescher, James R. Gattiker, Scott A. Vander Wiel, Peter W. Marcy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 1 | December 2021 | Pages S321-S325
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1932176
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New measurement and assessment techniques have been applied to the radiochemical reevaluation of the Trinity Event. Thirteen trinitite samples were dissolved and analyzed using a combination of traditional decay counting methods and the mass spectrometry techniques. The resulting data were assessed using advanced simulation tools to afford a final yield determination of 24.8 ± 2 kt TNT equivalent, substantially higher than the previous U.S. Department of Energy released value of 21 kt.