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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 12. NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS SAFETY (NISD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 6
Session Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (University of Maryland)
Alternate Chair:
Robert Kile (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Sensitivity Analysis of Field-Manual-Based Rail and Maritime Evacuation Strategies for Radiological Accidents
1:00–1:20PM MST
Geon Kim (Kyung Hee University), Minho Hwang (Kyung Hee University), Gyunyoung Heo (Kyung Hee University)
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Development of Precast Reinforced Concrete Construction Solutions for Safety-Related Nuclear Applications
1:20–1:40PM MST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (Idaho National Laboratory)
Techno-Economics of Mass-Produced Microreactors
1:40–2:00PM MST
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (Idaho National Laboratory), Jakub Toman (Idaho National Laboratory)
Risk Index Based Feed-and-Bleed Cue Optimization for Operator Time Margin in the APR1400
2:00–2:20PM MST
Changhyun Jang (Chung-Ang University), Jaewhan Kim (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), Jaehyun Cho (Chung-Ang University)
Optimizing Hazard Categorization for Analytical Laboratories
2:20–2:40PM MST
Trevor G. Hylen (Bechtel Corporation)