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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|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
W. David Pointer
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Comparative Analyses of the QUENCH Experiments L3HT and ATF-1 on High Temperature Oxidation Mechanisms Using AC²
1:30–1:50PM EDT
Gregor T. Stahlberg (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum), Christoph Bratfisch (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum), Marco K. Koch (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum)
Paper
Simulation of Wall Condensation in a Large Amount of Non-Condensable Gases Condition Using the SPACE Code
1:50–2:10PM EDT
Jong Hyuk Lee (KAERI), Kwi Seok Ha (KAERI), Seung Wook Lee (KAERI)
System Level Modeling of a Generic Pebble Bed High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (PB-HTGR) with SAM and Griffin
2:10–2:30PM EDT
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Jun Fang (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
Validation of System Analysis Module Axial Mixing Model for Thermal Stratification and Mixing Application in the Upper Plenum of a Liquid Metal Reactor
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Molly Ross (Purdue), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Ling Zou (ANL)
Experimental Investigation and Numerical Validation of Natural Convection in Molten Salt
2:50–3:10PM EDT
J. Reis (TAMU), J. Seo (TAMU), Y. Hassan (TAMU)