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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 Systematic Risk Evaluations
Monday, November 16, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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A Causal Framework for Transferability Assessment of Industrial Reliability Data for Advanced Reactor PRA
3:15–3:35PM MST
Rawan Mustafa (North Carolina State University), Akram S. Batikh, Yahya A. Alzahrani (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Paper
Reevaluation of Failure Predictions of the Unirradiated Silicon Carbide Layer in TRISO Fuel During FHR and HTGR Transient Events
3:35–3:55PM MST
Isabelle Lindsay (Idaho National Laboratory), Nicholas R. Brown (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
A Hybrid Causal Logic Approach for Multi-Hazard Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Nuclear Power Plants
3:55–4:15PM MST
Akram S. Batikh (North Carolina State University), Yahya A. Alzahrani (North Carolina State University), Rawan Mustafa, Asmaa S. Farag, Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Application of BEPU Approach to In-Vessel Cs Transfer during the Expansion Phase of ULOF Event in SFRs
4:15–4:35PM MST
Hiroki Sonoda (Nuclear Regulation Authorit)
Advanced Test Reactor Safety Basis Update for Gas-Cooled Experiments
4:35–4:55PM MST
Daniel K. Sluder (Idaho National Laboratory - Advanced Test Reactor), Andrew R. Baker, Jacob Westacott (Idaho National Laboratory), Brant D. Campbell (Idaho National Laboratory), Paul Murray, Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)