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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)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|8:00–9:45AM MST|Room 7
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Small Modular Reactor Economics in a Declining Solar Market
8:00–8:20AM MST
Parker Abrantes (ANS Student Chapter)
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The strategic value of the French nuclear fleet in the European electricity market
8:20–8:40AM MST
Valerie M. Faudon (Sfen (French Nuclear Society))
Market Structure and Nuclear Power Uprate Utilization
8:40–9:00AM MST
Yue Jiang (The Breakthrough Institute), Adam Stein (The Breakthrough Institute)
Outlook for Nuclear Energy 2026
9:00–9:20AM MST
William N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory), So-Bin Cho (Argonne National Laboratory), Arantxa Cuadra (Brookhaven National Laboratory), William Jenson (Idaho National Laboratory), Jakub Toman (Idaho National Laboratory), Matthew Binsted (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Ellie Lochner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Matthew Gidden (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Application of Microreactors for Positive Energy Districts in Cities: Determining Baseload Fitting and Size
9:20–9:40AM MST
Konstantinos Ipiotis (Sweco UK), Miltiadis Alamaniotis, Aristides Bonanos (Exus AI)