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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Walter Guttenfelder (PPPL)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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W7-X and the Stellarator Path to Fusion
Thomas S. Pedersen (Max Planck Inst. for Plasma Physics)
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Final Design of the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment
Juergen Rapp (ORNL), Arnold Lumsdaine (ORNL), Adam M. Aaron (ORNL), Theodore M. Biewer (ORNL), Tim Bigelow (ORNL), Boyd Ted (ORNL), John Caughman (ORNL), Douglas Curry (ORNL), Robert C. Duckworth (ORNL), Richard Goulding (ORNL), Michael Kaufman (ORNL), Cornwall Lau (ORNL)
From 25 Years of Fusion at Z Onward to the Next Generation of Pulsed Power
Daniel B. Sinars (Sandia)
Design of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Tritium Fuel Cycle
Mohamad Abdallah (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)), Iryna Bennett (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA))
