Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion (Canada) Inc., a Sotera Health company, and PSEG Nuclear LLC have taken up a joint initiative to establish the first commercial-scale production of Cobalt-60 in U.S. Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs).
Cobalt-60 is a critical isotope used to sterilize more than 16 billion single-use medical devices each year in the United States, deliver life-saving cancer treatments through stereotactic radiosurgery, and enhance food safety through irradiation. The first commercial-scale implementation of Cobalt-60 production in PWRs signals a transformative step.
Their long-term agreements to implement newly developed Cobalt-60 production technology for PWRs at PSEG’s Salem nuclear generating station in New Jersey, with Cobalt-60 planned to be supplied to Nordion.
