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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 14. OPERATIONS AND POWER (OPD)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026|1:00–2:45PM MST|Room 7
Session Chair:
W. N. Mann (Argonne National Laboratory)
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From Broad Regions to Deployable Sites: A National Siting Analysis for Co-locating Advanced Nuclear Reactors with Datacenter
1:00–1:20PM MST
Adarsh Bafana (Argonne National Laboratory), Haider Niaz (Argonne National Laboratory), Amgad Elgowainy (Argonne National Laboratory), Yan (Joann) Zhou (Argonne National Laboratory), Krishna Reddi (Argonne National Laboratory)
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AI Demand and Directed Nuclear Deployment
1:20–1:40PM MST
Deric Tilson (Breakthrough Institute), Ted Nordhaus (The Breakthrough Institute)
Comparative demographic analysis for data centers and demographically equivalent energy production communities.
1:40–2:00PM MST
Tanmay Deshmukh (University of Michigan), Aditi Verma (University of Michigan), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC)
Interconnection Reform and New Nuclear for New Load
2:00–2:20PM MST
Ash Bharatkumar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Aditi Verma (University of Michigan)