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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)
Monday, November 16, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Travis W. Knight (University of South Carolina)
Alternate Chair:
John Mobley (University of Michigan)
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Next Generation Shielding: 3D Printing with Metal Doped Polymer for Low-Energy X-Rays
3:15–3:35PM MST
Hari Naicker (University of Tennessee knoxville), Madison E. Vandergriff (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Riley Smith (University of Tennessee knoxville), Trevor A. Wakeland (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Kunal Mondal, Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Rigoberto Advincula (University of Tennessee knoxville)
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Tritium Breeding Optimization for STAR
3:35–3:55PM MST
Vasil Ivakimov (Pennsylvania State University), Issac James (Pennsylvania State University), Rocco Lombardo (Pennsylvania State University), Sean Dailey (Pennsylvania State University), Andrei Khodak (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
MoST: A Molybdenum-Sensitive Horizontal Split-Table Criticality Design
3:55–4:15PM MST
Grace A. Mahoney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Sophie Rose (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Elliot Jeong (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Andrew Johnson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Onur Taysi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
