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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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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|Special Topics
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Dupont
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs
Alternate Chair:
Shuichiro Miwa
Session Organizer:
Caleb S. Brooks
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Development of an Anisotropic Pressure Fluctuation Model for the Prediction of Turbulence-Induced Vibrations of Fuel Rods
10:45–11:05AM EDT
K. Zwijsen (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), N. van den Bos (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), E.M.A. Frederix (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), A.H. van Zuijlen (Delft Univ. Technology)
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Wall-Resolved LES and Low-Reynolds Number URANS Combined to an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Approach for Predicting Water Cross-Flow Induced Vibrations of a Single Flexible Tube in a Normal Square Tube Array
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Sofiane Benhamadouche (EDF R&D), William Benguigui (EDF R&D)
Modeling of Flow-Induced Vibrations of a BWR Instrumentation Guide Tube Experiment
11:25–11:45AM EDT
K. Zwijsen (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), S. Tajfirooz (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), A. Papukchiev (GRS), N. Edh (Vattenfall), E. Lillberg (Vattenfall)
URANS and Hybrid URANS/LES Coupled Fluid-Structure Simulations of Fluid-Induced Vibrations in a Square-Pitch Tube Bundle Subjected to Water Cross-Flows
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Daniele Vivaldi (IRSN), Jean Baccou (IRSN)