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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.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2026)
Technical Session|Sponsored by Thermal Hydraulics Summaries
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|11:00AM–12:45PM MST|Room 4
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Demonstration of the Safety Performance for Passive Safety Systems of the SMART100 Design
11:00–11:20AM MST
Hyun Sik Park (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Paper
Implementation of Heat Exchanger Model in SyTH for Accurate Temperature Distribution and Loop Coupling
11:20–11:40AM MST
Jacob C. Andrews (University of Texas at Austin)
ASAP-SAM: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Automating Nuclear Safety Analysis Workflows
11:40AM–12:00PM MST
Eric Cervi (Argonne National Laboratory)
Estimating Blast Pressure Loads with GOTHIC
12:00–12:20PM MST
Thomas L. George (Numerical Advisory Solutions)
Verification of the SyTH System Thermal-Hydraulics Code Using an MSRE Primary Loop Model
12:20–12:40PM MST
Nicholas P. Luciano (University of Texas at Austin)