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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 7. HUMAN FACTORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND CONTROLS (HFICD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 3
Session Chair:
Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Evaluating LSTM Explainability Under Progressive Sensor Loss for Heat-Pipe Microreactor Power Prediction
1:00–1:20PM MST
Jaden S. Palmer (North Carolina State University), Xu Wu (North Carolina State University), Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Preliminary AI-Based Evaluation of Safety and Work-Engagement-Related Characteristics
1:20–1:40PM MST
Kazuma Kunimasa (Department of Management Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Yuto Horiuchi (Department of Management Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Makoto Takahashi (Department of Management Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
Adaptive IQR-LSTM for Time Series Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Systems
1:40–2:00PM MST
Lauren S. Bailey (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Jon Dewitt Dalisay (University of the Philippines Diliman), Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Detection of Flaws in Eddy Current Steam Generator Tubes Inspection Data using YOLO
2:00–2:20PM MST
ELENI AVLONITIS (University of Texas, San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis, Thomas Elmer (Argonne National Laboratory), XIN ZHANG, Alexander Heifetz (Argonne National Laboratory), Sasan Bakhtiari