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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.
International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2026)
Track
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 1
Track Chair:
Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
Reactors designed to produce electricity for wide-area synchronous grids or microgrids; various power scales (kilowatt to gigawatt), operating temperatures, coolants, and neutron energy spectra; design and development issues; improved power conversion, resource utilization, and/or waste characteristics.
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Micro Pebble Bed Reactors with Sloped Flow
10:00–10:20AM MST
Isabella E. Wood (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Ethan Fowler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Paper
Prediction of VVER-1000 Core Design Parameters Using Convolutional Neural Network and Transformer Architectures for Fuel Loading Pattern Optimization
10:20–10:40AM MST
Ivan Jbanov (National Research University «Moscow Power Engineering Institute»)
Conformal Prediction for Autoregressive LSTM Surrogate Forecasting of Heat-Pipe Microreactor Transients
10:40–11:00AM MST
Logan Burnett (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jacopo Buongiorno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dean Price (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Design of Variable Power and Refuelling Light-Water Reactor Core
11:00–11:20AM MST
Ian J. Lynch (Ultralith Energy), Siddharth Sivakumar
Ultra-High Temperature Heat Pumps for Augmentation of Nuclear Heat for Industrial Processes
11:20–11:40AM MST
Logan D. Williams (Idaho National Laboratory), Aidan C. Rigby (Idaho National Laboratory), Iza G. Lantgios (Idaho National Laboratory)