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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|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Wednesday, October 12, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Olivier Marchand (IRSN)
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Accelerated Fuel Qualification: BISON Validation to In-Situ Cladding Burst Test
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Nathan Capps (ORNL), Ryan Sweet (ORNL), Kenneth Kane (ORNL), Samuel Bell (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Paper
Development in OFFBEAT of a Dynamic-Mesh Incremental Stress-Strain Solver and Validation Against the IFA 650.2 Ballooning Experiment
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Mechanical Property Evaluation with Nanoindentation Method on Zircaloy-4 Cladding Tube After LOCA-Simulated Experiment
11:05–11:30AM EDT
K. Kakiuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), A. Yamauchi (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority), M. Amaya (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Y. Udagawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), K. Kitano (Secretariat of Nuclear Regulation Authority)
