In this recipe from our cookbook " Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year," the wheaty flavor of pearl couscous (sometimes called Israeli couscous or ptitim) is a ...

Assessment of rectal dose with thermoluminescent in vivo dosimetry in high-dose-rate cobalt-60 intracavitary brachytherapy for cervical cancer: A two-arm cohort study using orthogonal images planning.

Workers at Bruce 7 handle cobalt-60 production equipment in the unit's cooling pool (Image: Bruce Power) Bruce Power has announced that it has completed another harvest of cobalt-60 from Bruce 7, a ...

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at a news conference in Havana on September 12. He says Cuba is ready to change, but not to submit to the U.S. ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images ...

Cobalt-60 supply and demand status. Irradiation technology is applied globally by a network of approximately three hundred irradiators using cobalt-60. Approximately 80% of this cobalt-60 usage is for ...

The proposed technique was evaluated under a gamma-ray irradiation environment using Cobalt-60 with an activity of 490 kCi at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Korea and provided a ...

Gamma irradiation is an old-school tool. It’s the same sort of radiation used for many food products sold in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists nine food varieties that can ...

Other important uses of cobalt-60 include the non-invasive treatment of cancers and brain tumours, polymer processing, food treatment and environmental applications. The demand for sterilisation and, ...

Institutions like the IAEA irradiated seeds using Cobalt-60 in the hope that changes in the seed’s genetic material give rise to beneficial mutations in plants.