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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 15. RADIATION PROTECTION AND SHIELDING (RPSD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 2
Session Chair:
Irina I. Popova (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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Quantifying Computational Cost and Performance of CADIS Variance Reduction Methodology
3:15–3:35PM MST
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (University of Utah)
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Neural Operator Surrogates for Two-Dimensional Neutron Flux Estimation
3:35–3:55PM MST
Japan K. Patel (Gateway Scripts, LLC), Barry D. Ganapol (University of Arizona), Matthew Schmidt (Washington University in St. Louis), Anthony Magliari (Siemens Healthineers), Todd A. Wareing (Varian Medical Systems)
Optimizing global variance reduction for MSR dose rate calculation
3:55–4:15PM MST
Rakim Hirji (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology - 770 State Street)
