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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
Wednesday, November 10, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (RPI)
Alternate Chair:
Xiaoxu Diao (OSU)
Session Producer:
Sam Brewer
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How to Assess a PSA Involving Passive Systems With a Number of CATHARE Code Runs Within an Industrial Context
10:10–10:40AM EST
Yann Morvan (EDF), Elisabeth Duvillard (EDF)
Paper
Development and Application of Risk Analysis Toolkit for Plant Resource Optimization
10:40–11:10AM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), C. Wang (INL), S. Hess (Jensen Hughes), D. P. Morton (Northwestern Univ.), I. Popova (Texas State Univ.)
Managing Unexpected Failures of Nuclear Power Plants by Incorporating Organizational Factors Into Probabilistic Risk Assessment
11:10–11:40AM EST
Andrea Roy (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Pegah Farshadmanesh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tatsuya Sakurahara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ernie Kee (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Automatic Generation of Event Trees and Fault Trees: A Model-Based Approach
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
D. Mandelli (INL), A. Alfonsi (INL), T. Aldemir (Ohio State Univ.)
