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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 4. EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (ETWDD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Tyler Newitt
Alternate Chair:
James E. Baciak (University of Florida)
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Opaque Scintillation Detectors for Advanced Reactor Safeguards
10:00–10:20AM MST
Sander Katz (University of California, Berkeley), Garrett Wendel (Pennsylvania State University), Jacob Moffatt (Pennsylvania State University), Andrew Wilhelm, Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Douglas Cowen (Pennsylvania State University), Igor Jovanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
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Timing, Techniques, and Industry Comparison of Nuclear Economic Analysis Tools
10:20–10:40AM MST
Rowan Marchie (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), William Hoover, Aditi Verma (University of Michigan)
Development of a Gamma-Ray Detection System for PebbleTRACK Validation
10:40–11:00AM MST
Arnav Goyal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ming Fang (University of Illinois - Dept of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering), Angela Di Fulvio (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
