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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
Monday, November 8, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Luca Podofillini (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Gopika Vinod (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)
Session Producers:
John Greenwood
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Defining Dependency in HRA
10:10–10:40AM EST
Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
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Characterizing Human Performance: Detecting Targets at High False Alarm Rates.
10:40–11:10AM EST
Ann Speed (Sandia), Jason Wheeler (Sandia), John Russell (Sandia), Fred Oppel (Sandia), Danielle N. Sanchez (Sandia), Austin Silva (Sandia), Anna Chavez (Sandia)
Extracting Human Reliability Findings From Human Factors Studies in the Human Systems Simulation Laboratory
11:10–11:40AM EST
Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
Basis for Generic Approach to Human Failure Event Dependent Combination Identification
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Don MacLeod (Jensen Hughes), Huafei Liao (X-Energy)
