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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 13. NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION POLICY (NNPD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 3
Session Chair:
Luis Ocampo Giraldo (Idaho National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Jorge Navarro (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Beholder: Towards A Digital Twin for Anomaly Detection in International Safeguards
3:15–3:35PM MST
Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory), Emerald Ryan, Ishita Trivedi (Idaho National Laboratory), Zachary Spielman (Idaho National Laboratory), Ashley Shields (Idaho National Laboratory), Kolton Heaps (Idaho National Laboratory), Amanda Rynes
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AI-Enabled Monitoring Options in Support of Digital Twins for Advanced Reactor Safeguards
3:35–3:55PM MST
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University), Anna S. Erickson (Georgia Institute of Technology), Daniel L. Watson (Texas A&M University College Station)
Using Operational Reactor Physics for Pebble-Bed Material Control and Accounting
3:55–4:15PM MST
John M. Ludwick (Texas A&M University), Daniel L. Watson (Texas A&M University College Station), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)
Quantifying Room Return Neutrons for Sparse He-3 Arrays in Near-Real-Time Accounting Systems Modeled with Limited Facility Design Information
4:15–4:35PM MST
Virginia Lucas (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Katrina E. Koehler (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Hyrum Hansen (Los Alamos National Laboratory), James E. Baciak (University of Florida), Robert K. Weinmann-Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Assessment of LEU Non-Destructive Assay Methods for HALEU Safeguards Verification
4:35–4:55PM MST
Soo Min Lee (Yonsei University), Chul Hee Min (Yonsei University)
Bubbler Instrumentation for Material Accountancy in Molten Salt Reactor Pneumatic Transfer Systems
4:55–5:15PM MST
Christopher Gundersen (Idaho National Laboratory), Ammon N. Williams (Idaho National Laboratory), Caleb Sorenson (INL), Andre Kahn (INL)