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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|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 1
Track Chair:
Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
Interdisciplinary modeling and analysis, market-level nuclear power plant deployment modeling, innovative approaches to nuclear project financing, economics-based optimization methods, business and economic challenges.
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Quantitative Evaluation of Contracting Mechanisms for Sharing Cost and Risk in Nuclear Construction
1:00–1:20PM MST
Veronica Morse (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Esther N. Ollennu, Awad Hanna (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Paper
International Cost Differences in Nuclear Construction: A Decomposition Using the Integrated ACCERT Framework
1:20–1:40PM MST
Jia Zhou (Argonne National Laboratory), Nahuel Guaita (Idaho National Laboratory), Ryan M. Spangler (Idaho National Laboratory), Cihang Lu (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Taek Kyum Kim (Argonne National Laboratory), Nicolas E. Stauff (Argonne National Laboratory), Jakub. Toman (Idaho National Laboratory)
Component-Level Cost Analysis Modeling Case Study for Mixed-Fleet Learning Spillovers in SMR Deployment Architectures
1:40–2:00PM MST
Trystan R. Gilbert (UltraLith), Siddharth Sivakumar
Modeling and Optimizing TCO of Nuclear-powered Data Centers
2:00–2:20PM MST
Zongrui Cai (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Md Akhlak Bin Aziz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Timothy P. Grunloh (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Rakesh Kumar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)