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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 8. ISOTOPES AND RADIATION (IRD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 9 (Mon. 1 o'clock ONLY)
Session Chair:
Kyle C. Hartig (University of Florida)
Alternate Chair:
Igor Jovanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
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NextGen MURR Radioisotope Processing Facility Design Approach
1:00–1:20PM MST
Ethan Schroeder (University of Missouri – NextGen MURR), Christine Norman (University of Missouri – NextGen MURR)
Paper
Multiple Nuclear Analytical Methods in Neutron Activation Analysis
1:20–1:40PM MST
Sheldon Landsberger (University of Texas at Austin), Mohy Sabry (University of Texas at Austin)
In-situ Measurement of Time-dependent Transmissivity of Optical Materials under Gamma Radiation and Concurrent Heating
1:40–2:00PM MST
Yunping Zhang (University of California, Berkeley), Leanne Wegley (Ohio State University ), Boyuan Sun, Sylvain Girard (Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne), Christian M. Petrie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Piyush Sabharwall (Idaho National Laboratory), Andrew Kauffman (Ohio State University), Igor Jovanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
Characterization of 238PuO2 particles using combined alpha spectrometry, autoradioraphy, and scanning electron microscopy energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy
2:00–2:20PM MST
Stephen P. LaMont (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kimberly Wurth (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Zsuzsanna Macsik (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Activation Product Sensitivity in High-Activity Forensics Samples with Pixelated HPGe
2:20–2:40PM MST
Zachary Metzler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)