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Fuel loading process begins at Palisades
The Palisades nuclear power plant has drawn closer to restart, as plant staff began the process of loading fuel into the reactor vessel on Sunday morning.
The commencement of fuel loading places the Covert, Mich., facility in Mode 6—or the refueling stage—under the plant’s technical specifications, plant owner and operator Holtec International said in a news release. The Palisades reactor core consists of 204 fuel assemblies that include new fuel and partially used fuel from the plant’s most recent operating cycles. According to Holtec, the fuel loading is being conducted in accordance with plant procedures and technical specifications.
Vincent S. Boyer was elected President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) in 1976. He was named a Fellow of ANS in 1966.
Mr. Boyer was born on April 5, 1918. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1935 with a Bachelor’s in Science in mechanical engineering and a MS in mechanical engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1944.
He conducted courses in power plant engineering during the war for the Engineering Science Management War Training program. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946 as an engineering officer.
He started his career with Philadelphia Electric Company (PEC) in 1939. He began his engineering work at a power station and progressed to station superintendent. During the war, he left PEC to serve in the U.S. Navy as an engineering officer.
In 1960, he returned to PEC and was appointed superintendent of Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station and was named the manager in 1963. In 1965, he was appointed General Superintendent of the Station Operating Department. In 1968, he became vice president of engineering and research; and in 1980, he was elected senior vice president of nuclear power for PEC. After retiring from PEC, he served as an energy consultant.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for his leadership in pioneering the commercial utilization of nuclear energy and service to the engineering profession.
He was a member of the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia and was active in the United Fund campaign drives.
Vincent S. Boyer passed away on May 11, 2001.
Read Nuclear News from July 1976 for more on Vincent Boyer.
