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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
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC)
Alternate Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
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Parametric Uncertainty Analysis of Korean i-SMR under Postulated Severe Accident Using CINEMA
10:00–10:20AM MST
Cheolwoong Kim (Hanyang University), Jinho Song, Joon-Eon Yang (Hanyang University), Sung Joong Kim (Hanyang University), Sang Ho Kim (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Seokgyu Jeong
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Hierarchical Uncertainty Propagation for Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment: A Framework for Coupling Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation and Dynamic Decision Engines
10:20–10:40AM MST
Rawan Mustafa (North Carolina State University), Zheng Fu (University of Idaho), Chris M. Allison (Innovative Systems Software), Alp Tezbasaran (North Carolina State University), Yahya A. Alzahrani (North Carolina State University), Akram S. Batikh, Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
From ADS-IDAC to OpenPRA: Enabling Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Advanced Reactors
10:40–11:00AM MST
Alp Tezbasaran (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Processing Meteorological Data Using Public Data Sources for Commercial Nuclear Siting Applications
11:00–11:20AM MST
Ethan S. Krammer (University of New Mexico), Matthew R. Denman (Kairos Power LLC), Kyoung Min Kang (Kairos Power LLC)
Modernization and Benchmarking of the EBR-II Level 1 PRA in SAPHIRE for Generic Sodium Fast Reactor Risk Assessment
11:20–11:40AM MST
Asmaa S. Farag (Aalo Atomics), Siddharth Sivakumar, Curtis L. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory), Yahya A. Alzahrani (North Carolina State University), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
