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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|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|10:15AM–12:00PM EST|Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Ahmed Amin Abdelhameed
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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Development of the Sodium-cooled Thermal-spectrum Advanced Research Test Reactor (STARTR) Model
10:15–10:35AM EST
Travis Lange (INL), Thomas Folk (Idaho National Laboratory - National Reactor Innovation Center)
Paper
Comparison of the Reactivity Model to a Jump in Equilibrium Method for Micro-Pebble-Bed High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors
10:35–10:55AM EST
Donald L. Doyle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Flux Decomposition in a Molten Salt Reactor
10:55–11:15AM EST
Sree Gudala (Univ. Texas, Austin), Benjamin Collins (Univ. Texas, Austin), Kevin Clarno (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Enhanced Neutronics Analysis of HFIR LEU Optimized Fuel Design via Improved PHAME Framework
11:15–11:35AM EST
Yves Robert (ORNL)
Impact of Spatial Mesh Resolution on Beryllium Poison Production and End-of-Cycle Reactivity in HFIR
11:35–11:55AM EST
Kevin Burg (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Donny Hartanto (ORNL)