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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.
Technical Session
Thursday, November 11, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
Jeffrey Julius (Jensen Hughes)
Alternate Chair:
James Chang (NRC)
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Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Benchmarking IDHEAS-ECA Using Data From the Presidential Election Recounts
12:40–1:10PM EST
Yung Hsien James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Paper
A Framework to Extrapolate and Evaluate Human Reliability Causal Models From Event Report Narratives
1:10–1:40PM EST
Andres Ruiz-Tagle (Univ. of Maryland), Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Enrique Lopez-Droguett (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
Feasibility of the TACOM Measure as a Yardstick to Identify the Level of Task Complexities Under a Procedure Guided Task Environment
1:40–2:10PM EST
Jinkyun Park (KAERI), Inseok Jang (KAERI), Yochan Kim (KAERI)
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A Taxonomy and Meta-Analysis Template for Combining Disparate Data to Understand the Effect of Digital Environments on Human Reliability
2:10–2:40PM EST
Mary Presley (EPRI), Ronald Boring (INL), Thomas Ulrich (INL), Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Marialaura Delvecchio (Institute for Energy Technology), Salvatore Massaiu (Institute for Energy Technology), Andreas Bye (Institute for Energy Technology), Jinkyun Park (KAERI), Yochan Kim (KAERI), Jeffrey A. Julius (Jensen Hughes)