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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 5. FUEL CYCLE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (FCWMD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 2
Session Chair:
Kaushik Banerjee (Idaho National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Stephanie H. Bruffey (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Engineering the Transition: Urenco’s Progression from LEU to HALEU
1:00–1:20PM MST
Quentin T. Newell (Urenco USA), Charlotta E. Sanders (University of Nevada Las Vegas)
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Transmutation Dilemma: An Evolutionary Game Approach
1:20–1:40PM MST
Yohei Nishitsuji (Sumitomo Corporation), Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies, LLC)
Radiation Impacts on Noble Gas Separation Performance of Sorbents
1:40–2:00PM MST
Praveen Kumar Thallapally (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Matthew Hurlock (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Keerthana Krishnan (keerthana.krishnan@pnnl.gov)
Considerations for Molten Salt Reactor Off-Gas Systems
2:00–2:20PM MST
Joanna McFarlane (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Hunter B. Andrews (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Zechariah Kitzhaber, Daniel Orea
Effects of Bentonite Content and Calcination Temperature on Shaped Zeolite Adsorbents for XeKr Capture
2:20–2:40PM MST
Soheil Layazali (Arizona State University), Zhaohong Xiu, Wenkai Shi, Chao Ma (Arizona State University)