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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|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jean-Marie Le Corre
Alternate Chair:
Yue Jin
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics Testing Using the NRC-PSU Rod Bundle Heat Transfer (RBHT) Test Facility
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Brian R. Lowery (Penn State), Molly K. Hanson (Penn State), Grant R. Garrett (Penn State), Douglas J. Miller (Penn State), Turki Almudhhi (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Kirk Tien (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Chris L. Hoxie (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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Towards a Better Understanding of Reflood Thermal-Hydraulics: A Summary of the OECD/NEA RBHT Project
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Brian Lowery (Penn State), Fan-Bill Cheung (Penn State), Alessandro Del Ferraro (NINE), Marco Cherubini (NINE), Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel Engineering), Martina Adorni (OECD/NEA)
METERO-V and PRIUS Experimental Programs: Complementary Separate Effects Tests for Core Mixing Validation
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Philippe Fillion (CEA), Seok Kim (KAERI), Clément Melin (CEA), Gilles Bernard-Michel (CEA), Benjamin Cariteau (CEA), Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)