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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 Treatment of Passive and Inherent Safety Features
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 2
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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Integrated Approaches for Passive Safety System Reliability Analysis: EPRI Research on Methodology Development and Modeling Applications
3:15–3:35PM MST
Eric A. Thornsbury (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)), Tom Elicson (Jensen Hughes Inc.), Chloe Howard, Stephen Hess, Leo Shanley
Paper
Performance Prediction of an Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS) Using a Superposition Approximation
3:35–3:55PM MST
Jeongwoo Jae (Kyung Hee University), Yongjoon Lee (Kyung Hee University), Geon Kim (Kyung Hee University), Gyunyoung Heo (Kyung Hee University)
Adsorptive Removal of Organic Iodides using Silver Modified Zeolites for Nuclear Off-Gas Treatment Applications
3:55–4:15PM MST
Shazia Manzoor (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)), Talhat Yaqoob (PIEAS), Masroor Ahmad (PIEAS), Amjad Farooq (PIEAS)
Confirming Ongoing Satisfaction of Reliability Targets Using Monitoring and Non-Destructive Examination
4:15–4:35PM MST
Robert W. Youngblood (Bob Youngblood Consulting LLC)
Defense-in-Depth Assessment of the NuScale Design
4:35–4:55PM MST
Jeremiah E. Doyle (NuScale Power)