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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 9. MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MSTD)
Monday, November 16, 2026|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 4
Session Chair:
Jake Quincey (Kairos Power)
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Designing an Irradiated Actinide-Bearing Molten Salt Flow Loop at The University of Texas at Austin
3:15–3:35PM MST
Branko Kovacevic (University of Texas - Austin), Aslak Stubsgaard (Copenhagen Atomics), Clayton C. Hudson, Derek Haas, Kevin T. Clarno (University of Texas at Austin), Shayan Shahbazi (University of Texas at Austin)
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Closing the Loop across Datasets for MS Thermophysical Properties
3:35–3:55PM MST
Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Difan Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Federico Zahariev (Iowa State University), Jacob Numbers (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Anthony Birri (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Investigating infiltration of FLiNaK and FLiBe in graphite for MSRs
3:55–4:15PM MST
Diego A. Muzquiz (University of Michigan), Stephen S. Raiman (University of Michigan)
in situ Monitoring of noble metal particles in molten halide salts at operationally relevant conditions
4:15–4:35PM MST
Barbara Allen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Lorenzo Vergari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Influence of Temperature and Phase on LIBS Performance in LiCl-KCl Molten Salts
4:35–4:55PM MST
Alexis Westwood (University of Utah), Supathorn Phongikaroon (University of Utah), John T. Smith (Virginia Commonwealth University)