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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|Severe Accidents
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Martina Adorni (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Sanjeev Gupta
Session Organizer:
David L. Luxat
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Analysis of Hydrogen Diffusion Ignition in Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Odai Nassar (Tel Aviv Univ.), Surya Kaundinya Oruganti (Tel Aviv Univ.), Marcel Martins Alves (Tel Aviv Univ.), Sergey Kudriakov (CEA), Etienne Studer (CEA), Liel Ishay (Nuclear Research Center Negev), Yoram Kozak (Tel Aviv Univ.)
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PANDA Experiment Addressing the Thermal Effects in a Large Water Pool Caused by Steam and a Lighter Non-condensable Gas Release from a Multi-Hole Sparger
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Domenico Paladino (Paul Scherrer Institute), Ralf Kapulla (Paul Scherrer Institute), Myeong Seon Chae (Paul Scherrer Institute), Sidharth Paranjape (Ostschweizer Fachhochschule), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
Recombination of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide on Silver-Based Zeolites in the Presence of Steam and at Pressures up to 3 Bar
9:40–10:00AM EDT
J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), V.K. Arumugam (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Experiments on the Impact of Carbon Monoxide on the Efficiency of Catalysts used for Hydrogen Mitigation in the Late Phase of a Severe Accident
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Ernst-Arndt Reinecke (Forschungszentrum Juelich), Gabriela Nobrega (IRSN), Michael Klauck (Forschungszentrum Jülich)