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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
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington A
Session Chair:
Chuck Kessel
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Paul W. Humrickhouse (ORNL)
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Validation of CFD MHD Code for Liquid Metal Modeling of Tritium Breeding Blankets
Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Jonathan E. Menard (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Paper
Transient Multiphysics Analysis of the DCLL Blanket for Fusion System Safety Analysis
Nicholas A. Meehan (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. I. Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Tritium Transport in WCLL Outboard Breeding Blanket of EU-DEMO Reactor under Pulsed Operation
Luigi Candido (Politecnico di Torino), Ciro Alberghi (Politecnico di Torino), Pietro Arena (ENEA), Fabio Moro (ENEA), Simone Noce (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Marco Utili (ENEA), Massimo Zucchetti (Politecnico di Torino)
Liquid Metal Blanket and First Wall for a Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch Fusion Generator
Clemente J. Parga (Zap Energy)
