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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|Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
W. David Pointer (ORNL)
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Validation on SBLOCA Experiment of the ACME Test Facility Using the ATHLET Code
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Liancheng Guo (GRS), Thorsten Hollands (GRS), Henrique Austregesilo (GRS)
Presented by Sebastian Buchholz (GRS)
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Assessment of the CATHARE Code over SUPERCLAUDIA Tests for a Jet in a Liquid Water Pool
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Angela Oliva (CEA), Sofia Carnevali (CEA), Franck Morin (CEA), Stephane Mimouni (EDF)
Simulation of Oscillatory Flow Induced by Flashing Instability Using the ASYST System Analysis Code
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Taiyang Zhang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Validation Against a Small Break LOCA Scenario on ACME Test Facility: Summary of the ISP-51 Open Phase
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Xueyan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Shiqi Wang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Cuiting Peng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yuhang Huang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Zhipeng Luo (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Lin Li (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Yixuan Zhang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Chengcheng Deng (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology), Jun Yang (Huazhong Univ. Science and Technology)
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