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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.
Sunday, August 16, 2026|1:00–5:00PM CDT
Promenade Ballroom B
Cost: $49
Limited Capacity
Join us at the American Nuclear Society Global 2026 Conference for a workshop on nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A), powered by Sandia National Laboratories’ Material Accountancy Performance Indicator Toolkit (MAPIT). Course objectives include an MC&A introduction, MAPIT installation/introduction, an overview of domestic regulatory guidelines and statistical foundations, MC&A key definitions and formulas and hands-on MAPIT exercises.
Using a HALEU fuel fabrication facility as a reference, participants will: define measurement points and uncertainties, compute relevant MC&A equations (such as inventory difference and its associated standard error), implement and compare measurement control programs, and simulate anomalies to practice root‐cause analysis. These scenarios can be directly translated from practice to purpose using MAPIT to detect, investigate, and propose corrective and preventive actions. Participants will gain a fundamental and practical understanding of the statistical MC&A challenges and resolutions for domestic nuclear fuel cycle facilities.