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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 14. OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 7
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Small Modular Reactors for district heating and industrial heat applications in France
1:00–1:20PM MST
Valerie M. Faudon (Sfen)
Paper
Balance-of-Plant Performance Assessment of a Light-Water SMR for Nuclear Desalination Cogeneration
1:20–1:40PM MST
Alessandro Spreafico (Politecnico di Milano), Ludovica Tumminelli (Politecnico di Milano), Marco Enrico Ricotti (Politecnico di Milano)
Base-load Nuclear Reactors with Heat Storage and Gas Turbines for Unlimited Dispatchable Electricity
1:40–2:00PM MST
Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), John Parsons, Nicolas Trosino (CentraleSupélec)
From Carbon Liability to Baseload Revenue: The Strategic Case for Nuclear-Integrated e-Fuels
2:00–2:20PM MST
Javier R. Castillo (ZettaJoule), Leonardo Fehlberg (Private), Jeffrey R. Harper (ZettaJoule)