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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|8:00–9:45AM MST|Room 2
Track Chair:
Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
Fuel, core, reactor pressure vessel and internal structures, advanced materials issues, environmental effects and fracture mechanics, concrete and steel containment design and analysis, design and monitoring for seismic, dynamic and extreme accidents, irradiation issues, materials and structural mechanics issues, aging material issues, codes and standards for new plant designs.
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Seismic Fragility Tests on Electromechanical Relays
8:00–8:20AM MST
Youngjun Choi (Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power), Youngyoon Lee (Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power), Dalhun Yang (Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power), Seok-Chul Kim (Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power), Hun Park (Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro Nuclear Power)
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Alchemy: An Agentic Framework for End-to-End Nuclear Facility Preliminary Design and Analysis
8:20–8:40AM MST
Harleen Kaur Sandhu (Idaho National Laboratory), Drew Rizk (Idaho National Laboratory), William Ashe (North Carolina State University), Nicholas Crowder (Idaho National Laboratory), Peter Suyderhoud (Idaho National Laboratory), Abhinav Gupta (North Carolina State University)
A NEA Review of the LW-SMR Fuel Design and Safety Evaluation Issues
8:40–9:00AM MST
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel Engineering), Lloyd Jones (UKNNL), Paul Van Uffelen (European Commission, JRC), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Nathan Capps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Faiza Sefta (NEA)