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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|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Wednesday, October 12, 2022|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Chao Wang (Framatome)
Alternate Chair:
Peter Diller (GE Hitachi)
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Cycle-Specific Fuel Assembly Bow Prediction and Water Gap Analysis for Ringhals 3/4
1:30–1:55PM EDT
Veit Marx (Framatome ), Petter Gabrielsson (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel), John Loberg (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel)
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Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Impacts of Loose Protective Grid Debris on RFA-2 Fuel Operation
1:55–2:20PM EDT
Alireza Mofidi (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael E. Conner (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Thanh H. Do (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Lisa M. Dudas (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Yiban Xu (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
The SPIZWURZ Project with New Approaches for Experiments and Modelling Related to Long-Term Dry Storage
2:20–2:45PM EDT
Sarah Weick (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Mirco Grosse (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Martin Steinbrueck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Juri Stuckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Michel Herm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Hans Jurgen Seifert (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Felix Boldt (GRS)
