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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|Lightning Talks
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Elia Merzari (PSU)
Alternate Chair:
Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
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Pebble Flow and Residence Time Distribution of 6.0 cm Graphite Pebbles in a Recirculating Pebble Bed Experimental Setup Using Radioactive Particle Tracking Technique
3:30–3:40PM EDT
Ahmed Jasim (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jihane Mendil (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Omar Farid (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Zeyad Zeitoun (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Sebastian Uribe (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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Automated Thermal Hydraulics System Analysis of High Flux Isotope Reactor Low-Enriched Uranium Silicide Dispersion Fuel Designs
3:40–3:50PM EDT
Christopher J. Hurt (ORNL), Zachary A. Bacon (ORNL), Valerie D. Fudurich (ORNL), W. Christopher Lowe (ORNL)
3D Imaging of Phase Structures Using Fibre Bragg Grating Grid Sensors
3:50–4:00PM EDT
Harvey Oliver Plows (Bangor Univ.), Marat Margulis (Bangor Univ.), Jinfeng Li (Bangor Univ.)
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Modeling and Simulation-Informed Design of a Natural Convection Salt Loop Irradiation Experiment at MITR to Generate MSR-Specific Data
4:00–4:10PM EDT
Nesrin O. Cetiner (MIT), David Carpenter (MIT), Guiqiu Zheng (MIT), Gordon Kohse (MIT)
COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling Results for the Low Enriched Uranium-Silicide Conversion of the High Flux Isotope Reactor
4:10–4:20PM EDT
Prashant K. Jain (ORNL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Flow Visualization in a Packed Bed Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) and X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT)
4:20–4:30PM EDT
Adam O. Mafi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jerel W. Houston (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL)
Large Eddy Simulations of Channel Flow with one Heated Wall for Liquid Metals and High Temperature Gasses
4:30–4:40PM EDT
Theodore M. Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Large Eddy Simulation of Thermal Mixing of Liquid Sodium in a T-Junction
4:40–4:50PM EDT
Xiaoxue Huang (Univ. Sheffield), Shuisheng He (Univ. Sheffield)
Measurements of Near-Wall Turbulence in Water by Molecular Tagging Velocimetry
4:50–5:00PM EDT
Charles Fort (George Washington Univ.), Philippe Bardet (George Washington Univ.)
Code Calculation of Flow Distributions in a Plate-Type Fuel Assembly
5:00–5:10PM EDT
Zhou Lei (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Liu Jingze (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Yang Jun (Nuclear Power Institute of China)