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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 10. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION (MCD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 5
Session Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Alternate Chair:
Kendra Long
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DTIA in the Analysis of Reactor Pressure Vessel Structural Behaviour in Severe Accidents
10:00–10:20AM MST
Karim Hossny (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Walter Villanueva (Nuclear Futures Institute, Bangor University), Mostafa ElNaggar (Ohio State University), Afaque Shams (NRG Petten)
Paper
Uncertainty Reduction of Light Water TSL Data Based on Data Assimilation Using Surrogate Model with Non-Linear Effect
10:20–10:40AM MST
Minori Shimakura (Nagoya University), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya University), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya University)
Real-Time Neutron-Gamma Discrimination: Fusing Statistical and Deep Learning on Time-Series Data
10:40–11:00AM MST
Abigail Sears (United States Naval Academy), Jennie Hill, Hatem ElBidweihy
Evaluation of the Effect of Control-Rod Positioning on One-Group Effective Nuclear Data for Ex-Core Flux Reconstruction in the JSI TRIGA Mark-II Reactor
11:00–11:20AM MST
Jake T. LaFore (Colorado School of Mines), Haoyu Wang (Argonne National Laboratory), Anze Pungercic (Jožef Stefan Institute), Roberto Ponciroli (Argonne National Laboratory), Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
A Bayesian Optimization Workflow for HTGR Fuel Assembly Design
11:20–11:40AM MST
Kangan Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Andi Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)