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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|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Enrique Droguet (UCLA)
Alternate Chair:
Sai Zhang (INL)
Session Producer:
Zach Berkow
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Leveraging Risk Insights Frameworks for Aging Management at Nuclear Reactors
2:50–3:20PM EST
Fernando Ferrante (EPRI), Emma Wong (EPRI), Andrew Mantey (EPRI), Jessica Bock (Ameren Missouri), Justin Hiller (Ameren Missouri), Barry Thurston (Exelon Nuclear Generation), Suzanne Lloyd (Exelon Nuclear Generation), Nina Lacôme (Exelon Nuclear Generation), Seth Rios (Exelon Nuclear Generation), Larry Lee (Jensen Hughes), Andrew Williamson (Jensen Hughes)
Paper
Evaluation of the Impact of Steam Generator Aging and ATF on Operator Actions During SBLOCA Without HPSI
3:20–3:50PM EST
Jintae Kim (Ohio State Univ.), Tunc Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Value of Information-Based Optimal Sensors Positioning by Subset Simulation for Condition-Based PSA
3:50–4:20PM EST
Seyed Mojtaba Hoseyni (Politecnico di Milano), Francesco Di Maio (Politecnico di Milano), Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano)
Reliability of Power System Including Renewable Sources With and Without Nuclear Power Plants
4:20–4:50PM EST
Marko Cepin (Univ. of Ljubljana), Aljaz Spelko (Univ. of Ljubljana)
