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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.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
LianGe Zheng (LBNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jenn Frederick (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Simplified Computations of Radionuclide Transport in Complex Fracture Networks in Deep Crystalline Rock
1:00–1:20PM MST
Osvaldo Pensado (Southwest Research Institute), Stuart Stothoff (Southwest Research Institute), Mrityunjai Sharma (Uppsala Univ.), Joel Geier (Clearwater Hardrock Consulting), Auli Niemi (Uppsala Univ.), Chin-Fu Tsang (LLNL)
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Development of Radionuclide Transport Model in the Near Field Considering the Long-Term Evolution of Excavation Damaged Zone
1:20–1:40PM MST
Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI)
Effect of Considering Hydraulic Rock Mass Domain on Nuclide Transport in Fractured Rock
1:40–2:00PM MST
Yong-Min Kim (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI), Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Sung-Hoon Ji (KAERI)
DECOVALEX Task F DOE Crystalline Reference Case Results
2:00–2:20PM MST
Rosie Leone (Sandia), Emily Stein (Sandia), Jeffrey D. Hyman (LANL)
Modeling of Fractured Rock Under Stress for Nuclear Waste Disposal Applications
2:20–2:40PM MST
Teklu Hadgu (Sandia), Yifeng Wang (Sandia)