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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|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Jeremy Bittan (EdF)
Alternate Chair:
Fabio Giannetti (Univ of Rome)
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Comparison Between EDF MAAP5.04, EPRI MAAP5.06 and CATHARE Codes on Hypothetical Accidental Transients Leading to a Core Damage on the NUWARD SMR Design
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Jeremy Bittan (EDF)
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The iPWR MELCOR 2.2 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Mateusz Malicki (Paul Scherrer Institute), Piotr Darnowski (Warsaw Univ. Technology), Terttaliisa Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Analyses of the MELCOR Capability to Simulate Integral PWR Using Passive Systems
4:10–4:30PM EDT
F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Imperatori (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. D'Onorio (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Garcia (CIEMAT), L. E. Herranz (CIEMAT), A. Bersano (ENEA), F. Mascari (ENEA)
Advanced FCVS System Using Silver Zeolite AgX, AgR and XeA
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Yoshihiro Ishikawa (Rasa Industries), Koji Endo (Rasa Industries), Tadashi Narabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), D. Suckow (Paul Scherrer Institute), F. Espegren (Paul Scherrer Institute), T. Lind (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Mantzaras (Paul Scherrer Institute), V.K. Arumugam (Paul Scherrer Institute), J. Theile (Paul Scherrer Institute), Yuta Nakasaka (Hokkaido Univ.), Yasuhiro Kawahara (Kimura Chemical Plants Co.)
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Sensitivity Analysis of Heat Transfer Limit Under IVR-ERVC Condition Based on a Newly Developed CHF Model
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Gang Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Shilei Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Bo Kuang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Pengfei Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
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