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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|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 7
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Due Diligence: An Institutional Framework for Advanced Reactor Commercialization
10:00–10:20AM MST
Sarah N. Gibboney (Gibboney Nuclear, PLLC)
Paper
Analysis of Structural Drivers of Commercial Reactor Leadtimes
10:20–10:40AM MST
Jessica R. Lovering (Uppsala University - Campus Gotland), Simon Davidsson Kurland (Uppsala University - Campus Gotland)
Harvesting the Variance Risk Premium in Nuclear and Energy Equities: A Short-Put Portfolio Derisking Strategy
10:40–11:00AM MST
Jilang Miao (Pennsylvania State University), Nonna Sorokina
Framework for a Top-down and Bottom-up Nuclear Economic Estimation Tool
11:00–11:20AM MST
Rowan Marchie (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), David Wenger, Aditi Verma (University of Michigan)