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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
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|1:00–2:45PM 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 Distributed Networked System for Scalable Probabilistic Risk Assessment Quantification
1:00–1:20PM MST
Hasibul Rasheeq (North Carolina State University), Kirill Shumilov (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Paper
From SCRAM to PRAXIS: Transitioning to a Rust Based Boolean Solver Engine for PRA Quantification
1:20–1:40PM MST
Hasibul Rasheeq (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Pracciolini: A Multi Format Translation Tool for Fault Tree Models
1:40–2:00PM MST
Cross-Entropy Polarity-Aware Adaptive Importance Sampling for Non-Coherent Fault Trees
2:00–2:20PM 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)
Circumventing the Memory Barrier: In-Place Exact Probability Quantification for PRA
2:20–2:40PM MST
Kirill D. Shumilov (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)