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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)
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 4
Session Chair:
Igor Jovanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
Alternate Chair:
Lei R. Cao (The Ohio State University)
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Estimating Californium-252 Production at ATR and HFIR Using ORIGEN
10:00–10:20AM MST
Grace M. Power (ORNL), William J. Marshall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Screening Assessment of HFIR Flux Trap Modifications for Enhanced Californium-252 Production
10:20–10:40AM MST
Kevin Burg (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Aaron J. Holzaepfel (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL))
Experimental Approach for Identifying Prompt Gamma Emissions from Xe 135(n,g) via Optimized In Core Production
10:40–11:00AM MST
Ivy Seidel (University of Texas at Austin), Will Flanagan, William S. Charlton (University of Texas-Austin), Derek Haas
Visualizing Radionuclide and Colloid Transport Through Bentonite Using a Microfluidic Diffusion Platform
11:00–11:20AM MST
Sarah E. Lu (Los Alamos National Lab), Kimberly Wurth (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Nathan Conroy (Los Alamos National Lab), Quinn McCulloch (Los Alamos National Lab), Jeremy Inglis (Los Alamos National Lab), Stephen P. LaMont (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
