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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 The Licensing Nexus: Proving ”Safe Enough” and “Secure Enough”
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 2
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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An Approach for Sizing Nuclear Emergency Planning Zone of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors in Japan
10:00–10:20AM MST
Kentaro Nagatsuka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Hiroaki Takegami (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Hiroyuki Sato (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Nariaki Sakaba (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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Streamlined Siting for Low-Consequence Reactors under Draft 10 CFR Part 57
10:20–10:40AM MST
Riley J. Fisher (University of Michigan), Sari Alkhatib (Argonne National Laboratory), David Grabaskas (Argonne National Laboratory)
Application of a Risk-Informed Emergency Planning Zone Framework to a Generic Sodium Fast Reactor PRA Model Based on EBR-II
10:40–11:00AM MST
Asmaa S. Farag (Aalo Atomics), Curtis L. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Akram S. Batikh, Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
A Systematic Approach for Identification and Quantification of Multi-Module Initiating Events in MHTGRs
11:00–11:20AM MST
Ahmed S. Parsi (NC State University), Rawan Mustafa, Yahya A. Alzahrani (North Carolina State University), David P. Blanchard (Applied Reliability Engineering, Inc.), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
A Systematic Framework for Implementing NEI 18-04 SSC Risk Significance Criteria: Navigating Competing Interpretations of Cumulative Risk Metrics
11:20–11:40AM MST
Olivier Retourne (North Carolina State University, X-energy), Erick Ball (X-energy), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)