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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 17. ROBOTICS AND REMOTE SYSTEMS (RRSD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 6
Session Chair:
Chris Pilon (AtkinsRealis)
Alternate Chair:
Anamary Daniel (Inspection Experts, Inc.)
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A QR-Guided Autonomous Inspection Framework for a Quadruped Robot Using LiDAR SLAM in Indoor Nuclear-Relevant Environments
3:15–3:35PM MST
Lada Protcheva (University of Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Paper
Risk-Informed Robotic Remote Shutdown: Combining Reachability Envelopes and Importance Sampling
3:35–3:55PM MST
Ria Cheruvu (Independent)
Development of the Autonomous Radiological Cartographer System
3:55–4:15PM MST
Steven Lukow (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Ashton Stroud (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Tyler Hulson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dylan Sullivan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Matthew Cohn (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Daniel McDonald (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Developing a Humanoid Repair Platform utilizing learning from demonstration and humanoid tooling in Hanford Tank Farms
4:15–4:35PM MST
Brian Archambault (Argonne National Laboratory), Adam Buier (Argonne National Laboratory), Dongjune Chang (Argonne National Laboratory), Young Soo Park (Argonne National Laboratory)
Automated Inspection of Criticality Control Overpacks for Surplus Plutonium Disposition
4:35–4:55PM MST
Michael Tomlin, Camille Kudrna (SRNL)