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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 16. REACTOR PHYSICS (RPD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 8
Session Chair:
Nicholas P. Luciano (University of Texas at Austin)
Alternate Chair:
Valerio Mascolino (Colorado School of Mines)
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Shift Analysis of SEFOR Core I-D Material Worth
1:00–1:20PM MST
Donny Hartanto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Eva E. Davidson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yan Cao (Argonne National Laboratory), Emily R. Shemon (Argonne National Laboratory)
Paper
Neutron Budget Partitioning and Spectrum-Shift in Fission-Fusion Hybrids
1:20–1:40PM MST
Yuenfu Ng (Independent Researcher)
Refueling and Reprocessing Effects in a Thorium-Fueled MSR
1:40–2:00PM MST
Seda Yilmaz (Purdue University), Shripad T. Revankar (Purdue University), Yunlin Xu (Purdue University)
Benchmark Model Validation of a Depletion Framework Utilizing Monte Carlo Neutron Transport
2:00–2:20PM MST
Jonathon Faulkner (Georgia Institute of Technology), Mohamed Nasser (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology - 770 State Street)
Demonstration of the Time-Independent Stability Framework Approach for EBR-II
2:20–2:40PM MST
Michael Parnell (Texas A&M University), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University)