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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by 2. AEROSPACE NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ANSTD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 5
Session Chair:
N. Dianne B. Ezell (Idaho National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Eddie Lopez Honorato (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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A Conceptual Design of 100 kWe Fission Surface Power System for the Lunar Base
1:00–1:20PM MST
Rei Kimura (Toshiba Corporation), Osamu Kawasaki (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Hiroshi Nakagomi (Toshiba Corporation), Yasushi Tsuboi (Toshiba Corporation), Tetsu Suzuki (Toshiba Corporation), Rie Aizawa (Toshiba Corporation)
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Revisiting the Feasibility of the Star-C Reactor Design
1:20–1:40PM MST
Isaac Reichow (University of Michigan), Brendan M. Kochunas (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Enhancing Cislunar Mission Architectures Using Space Nuclear Propulsion
1:40–2:00PM MST
Saroj Kumar (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Alexander C. Bendoyro (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Neutronics Baseline for Multiphysics Uncertainty Qualification of the Particle Bed Reactor
2:00–2:20PM MST
Daniel E. Grammer (University of California, Berkeley), Massimiliano Fratoni (University of California Berkeley), Ishita Trivedi (Idaho National Laboratory)