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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
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 2
Track Chair:
Raluca O. Scarlat (University of California Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
O&M costs, life cycle management, risk-based maintenance, operational experiences, performance and reliability improvements, outage optimization, human factors, plant staffing, major component reliability, repair and replacement, in-service inspection, codes & standards, supply chain management and resilience, long-term operations and life extensions.
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Demonstration of an Online, Supervisory Control Framework for Goal-Oriented Operations
10:00–10:20AM MST
Lauren Fortier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sacit Cetiner (Idaho National Laboratory), Curtis Smith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anuradha Annaswamy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Paper
Prediction of Major Severe-Accident Event Occurrence and Residual Time from Sensor Histories and Operator-Action Schedules
10:20–10:40AM MST
Daehyung Lee (KEPCO Engineering & Construction), Byung Jo Kim (KEPCO Engineering & Construction), Kwang Rak Seo (KEPCO Engineering & Construction)
Response-Based Coordinated Control of Hydraulic Proportional Valves in SMART Valve Testbed
10:40–11:00AM MST
Anutam Bairagi (University of New Mexico), Minghui Chen (University of New Mexico)
Basic Research on the Gas Leak Localization and Species Classification Inside Nuclear Reactor Buildings Using Ultrasound
11:00–11:20AM MST
Jumma Tanaka (Institute of Science Tokyo), Hiroshige Kikura (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hideharu Takahashi (Institute of Science Tokyo), Gen Endo (Institute of Science Tokyo), Takaaki Uehara (Institute of Science Tokyo), Rei Sekiguchi (Institute of Science Tokyo)