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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 Young Professionals Research Competition
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|11:00AM–12:45PM MST|Room 4
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver (Argonne National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Drew M. Ryan (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
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Experimental Determination of Drag Coefficients for Irregularly Shaped Particles in Fuel Dispersal Scenarios
11:00–11:20AM MST
Caleb Malinowski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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Modeling Of Forsmark 1 BWR Natural Circulation Stability Tests Using TRACE And PARCS System Codes
11:20–11:40AM MST
Graeme Trunde (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Sevostian V. Bechta (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Johanna Sandeberg (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB), Peter Balint (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB), Sean Roshan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Luca Facciolo (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB), Michael Söderström (Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel AB), David Palko (Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB), Jonathan Eriksson (Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB)
Liquid Film Thickness Modeling in Upward Annular Two-Phase Flow
11:40AM–12:00PM MST
Peter Iascone (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Yang Liu (Virginia Tech)
Scaling Analysis of an Integral-Effect Test Facility for a Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor with a Focus on Cladding Temperature Similarity during Loss-of-Forced-Cooling Accident
12:00–12:20PM MST
Minsuk Lee (University of Michigan), Xiaodong Sun (University of Michigan), Ji Yong Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Alex Coxe (Virginia Commonwealth University), Piyush Sabharwall (Idaho National Laboratory)
Applying Very Small and Random Perturbations to CATHARE Test Cases: a New Tool for Development Assessment
12:20–12:40PM MST
Valentin Cottarel (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA)), Maxime Vernassière (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA)), Gauthier Fauchet (French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA))