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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.
Technical Session|Computational Thermal Hydraulics
Thursday, August 24, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 9/10
Session Chair:
Theodore Chu (VCU)
Alternate Chair:
Lilla Koloszar (VKI)
Session Organizer:
Igor A. Bolotnov
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Large-Eddy Simulation of Mixed Convection Flows in a Rod Bundle: Investigation of an Up-Scaling Methodology from CFD to Subchannel Code Validation
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Vladimir Duffal (EDF R&D), Pierre-Victor Marquet (EDF R&D), Erwan Le Coupanec (EDF R&D), Stéphane Pujet (EDF R&D)
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Application Study of Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method on Unsteady Wake Vortex Analysis
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Haneen Alzahrani (Tokai Univ.), Takaaki Sakai (Tokai Univ.), Kentaro Matsushita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Toshiki Ezure (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Masaaki Tanaka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
CFD Simulations of the Step Height Effects on Heat Transfer for a Turbulent Wall Jet Flow in an Unconfined Backward Facing Step Configuration
9:40–10:00AM EDT
H. Ouldrebai (Univ. Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene), Y. Halouane (Université de Boumerdes), A. Dehbi (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Full-Core Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations Using NekRS
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Dillon Shaver (ANL), Jun Fang (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Misun Min (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Yu-Hsiang Lan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)