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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 15. RADIATION PROTECTION AND SHIELDING (RPSD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 2
Session Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Rapid Prediction of Radiation Protection Factors via Snapshot-Based Gaussian Process Regression
10:00–10:20AM MST
Stephen R. McHale (U.S. Naval Academy), John Burkhardt (U.S. Naval Academy), Anissa Morgan (U.S. Naval Academy)
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Replicating Cancer Mortality Near Nuclear Plants
10:20–10:40AM MST
Deric Tilson (Breakthrough Institute), Adam Stein (The Breakthrough Institute)
A Mostly Spherical Success: Investigating and Fixing a Reaction Rate Bias Caused by a Symmetry Shortcut
10:40–11:00AM MST
Mathieu Dupont (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Andrew M. Holcomb (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Alexander Lang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
A Sample-Size-Invariant Bias Floor in Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology
11:00–11:20AM MST
Adam Stein (The Breakthrough Institute)