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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|Methods
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Franciscan D
Session Chair:
Nader Satvat (Kairos Power)
Alternate Chair:
Marianna Papadionysiou (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Session Organizer:
Mathieu Hursin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
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On the Impact of Fuel Velocity Profile on Loss of Delayed Neutron Precursors in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Mario Ponce Tovar (Seaborg Technologies), Lorenz Fischer (Seaborg Technologies), Lubomir Bures (Seaborg Technologies)
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Development of the Molten Salt Reactor Application in French Reference System Code CATHARE3
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Ruggero Rosselli (CEA), Nathan Greiner (CEA), Marine Anderhuber (CEA), Théotime Le Borgne de Palfray (CEA)
Presented by Mathis Caprais (CEA)
Development of a Delayed Neutron Precursor Tracking Module for Molten Salt Reactors in the iMC Monte Carlo Code
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Inyup Kim (KAIST), Taesuk Oh (KAIST), Yonghee Kim (KAIST)
Quantifying Uncertainties: Evaluating the Impact of Molten Salt Thermal Property Variability on Reactor Operation
11:15–11:35AM PDT
Davide Rotilio (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mauricio Tano (INL), Abdalla Abou-Jaoude (INL), Samuel Walker (INL), Massimiliano Fratoni (Univ. California, Berkeley), Renato Gatto (Sapienza Univ. di Roma)
Squirrel; a MOOSE Based App for Solving Quasi-Static Point Kinetics in Molten Salt Reactors
11:35–11:55AM PDT
P. Pfahl (Technical Univ. Denmark), A. Chambon (Technical Univ. Denmark), J. Groth-Jensen (Seaborg Technologies), B. Lauritzen (Technical Univ. Denmark)
