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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
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 1
Track Chair:
Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
Reactors designed for remote operations, disaster relief and recovery, space exploration, propulsion/locomotion on land/air/water/space; various power scales (kilowatt to megawatt), operating temperatures, coolants, and neutron energy spectra; design and development issues.
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Conceptual Design of Ventilation and Filtration System for Nuclear-Powered Ships: A Zone-Based Approach
1:00–1:20PM MST
Kinam Kim (HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering), Jekyoung Lee (HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering)
Paper
Assessing the Applicability of International and Domestic Maritime Security Frameworks to Floating Nuclear Power Plants
1:20–1:40PM MST
Hongjie Lin (United States Coast Guard), Marc Fialkoff (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jason Karcz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Demonstrated Autonomous Control and Transient Operation of Walk-Away Safe Microreactor
1:40–2:00PM MST
Mohamed El-Genk M. Mohamed El-Genk (The University of New Mexico), Timothy M. Schriener (The University of New Mexico)
Load-Following Dynamics of an SMR-Powered All-Electric Ship with Battery Energy Storage
2:00–2:20PM MST
Ali M. Rad (The University of Texas at Dallas), Jie Zhang (The University of Texas at Dallas)