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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.
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS 2026)
Technical Session|Sponsored by Deterministic Safety Analysis
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 3
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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Metal Fuel Steel Penetration Tests in CAFÉ Facility: Effects of Melt Composition and Prototypic Geometry
1:00–1:20PM MST
Taeil Kim (Argonne National Laboratory), Darius D. Lisowski (Argonne National Laboratory), Peter Mouche (Argonne National Laboratory)
Paper
Random Sampling-based Uncertainty Analysis of a Small Modular PWR Using the PRATIC Model
1:20–1:40PM MST
Shigeki Shiba (Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Japan)
Molten U-10Zr Interactions with Stainless Steel Under Severe Accident Conditions from Metal Fuel Steel Penetration Tests in CAFÉ Facility
1:40–2:00PM MST
Peter A. Mouche (Argonne National Laboratory), Gyuchul Park (Argonne National Laboratory), Taeil Kim (Argonne National Laboratory), Takanari Ogata (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Safety Analysis of a Loss of Forced Circulation Transient in the Kairos Power Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor Using KP-SAM
2:00–2:20PM MST
Aaron Huxford (Kairos Power LLC), Ishak Johnson (Kairos Power LLC), Carolina Bourdot Dutra (Kairos Power LLC), Lambert H. Fick (Kairos Power LLC)
NOTBADTRAD and the FLARE Risk Analysis Tool for Radiological |Consequence and Frequency-Consequence Screening
2:20–2:40PM MST
Robert P. Martin (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)