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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)
Tuesday, November 17, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 3
Session Chair:
Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory)
Alternate Chair:
Linyu Lin (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Development of Digital Twin Frameworks for a Natural Circulation Flow Loop
10:00–10:20AM MST
Hari V. Naicker (University of Tennessee, Koxville), Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas J. Armstrong, Nathan Lincoln, Nathanael Orick (University of Tennessee, Koxville), Sunming Qin (Idaho National Laboratory), Linyu Lin (Idaho National Laboratory), Daniel M. Mikkelson (Idaho National Laboratory - 1955 Freemont Ave), Mohammad G. Abdo (Idaho National Laboratory), Tao Liu (Idaho National Laboratory), Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory), Jack M. Cavaluzzi (Texas A&M University)
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Keeper: Developing a Framework for Regulatory Compliance in Autonomous Operations
10:20–10:40AM MST
Ryan H. Stewart (Idaho National Laboratory), Casey R. Kovesdi, Anna Hall (Idaho National Laboratory), Jieun Lee (Idaho National Laboratory), Emerald Ryan, Steven Pappas, Amanda Foley (Idaho National Laboratory)
A Signal Integrity Evaluation Methodology in Nuclear MMIS Circuit Boards
10:40–11:00AM MST
Hyunki Kim (KHNP), Heetaek Lim (KHNP), Sunghyun Kim (KHNP)
Recent Progress on a Digital Nuclear Instrumentation Upgrade at MURR
11:00–11:20AM MST
Peter Norgard (University of Missouri Research Reactor)
Validation Study of the MIT Reactor Simulator Digital Twin using Power Ramp Transients
11:20–11:40AM MST
Li Xuan Tan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Nuclear Reactor Laboratory - NW12), Lin-Wen Hu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)