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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|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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Verification of Transient Phenomena in RELAP5-3D: Part 1 Vessel Boiloff
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Robert P. Martin (BWXT Advanced Technologies)
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Verification of Transient Phenomena in RELAP5-3D: Part 2 Turbomachinery
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Robert P. Martin (BWXT Advanced Technologies), Michael S. Bradbury (Information Systems Laboratories)
Two-Phase Transient Modeling of a Large Scale RCCS with RELAP5-3D
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Matthew Jasica (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL)
Assessment of the Choked Flow Model of RELAP5 for the Application of Inverse Quantification Methods
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Jordi Freixa (Univ. Politècnica Catalunya), Víctor Martínez-Quiroga (Univ. Politècnica Catalunya), Gregory Perret (Paul Scherrer Institute)
A Methodology to Evaluate the Impact of Physical Distortions on Systems' Code Assessment
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Marcos G. Ortiz (Information Systems Laboratories)
