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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|3:15–5:00PM MST|Room 8
Session Chair:
Stefano Terlizzi (Penn State - Ken and Mary Alice Linquist Department of Nuclear Engineering)
Alternate Chair:
Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)
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Benchmark of OpenMC University of Utah TRIGA Reactor Model with MCNP 6.3
3:15–3:35PM MST
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (University of Utah), Holtan Siegal (University of Utah), Youssef Badr (University of Utah), Edward Goodell (University of Utah)
Paper
Reactor Analysis of HALEU Core in Conversion of UTR-KINKI from HEU to LEU Fuel
3:35–3:55PM MST
Hiroshi Shiga (Kindai University), Masato Tabuchi (Kindai University), Charles Stratton (Argonne National Laboratory), Thad A. Heltemes (Argonne National Laboratory), John G. Stevens (Argonne National Laboratory)
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Post-Shutdown 135Xe Poisoning in the UUTR
3:55–4:15PM MST
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (University of Utah), Edward Goodell (University of Utah), Andrew J. Allison (University of Utah), Holtan Siegal (University of Utah), Savannah Lad (University of Utah), Mary Schaelling (University of Utah), Rex Wight (Brigham Young University-Idaho)
