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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
Wednesday, April 24, 2024|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Continental Ballroom 1
Session Chair:
Tomoaki Watanabe (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Anselmo T. Cisneros (TerraPower)
Session Organizer:
Go Chiba (Hokkaido University)
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Validation of ENDF/B-VIII.0 Cross-Section Library for METAL-FAST Graphite Systems
10:15–10:35AM PDT
Paul Vollrath (Georgia Tech), Farzad Rahnema (Georgia Tech), Alex Shaw (ORNL)
Paper
Investigation of the Impact of TSL Data Libraries and Geometry Variations on the MSRE Benchmark
10:35–10:55AM PDT
Aidana Bauyrzhan (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Assessing Criticality Implications of Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Porosity Misrepresentation in ENDF/B-VIII.1 TSLs for Nuclear Graphite
10:55–11:15AM PDT
Kemal Ramic (ORNL), Iyad Al-Qasir (ORNL), Friederike Bostelmann (ORNL), Chris W. Chapman (ORNL), Anne Campbell (ORNL), Kyle Grammer (ORNL), Zain Karriem (ORNL), Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian (European Spallation Source), Mark Baird (ORNL), Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL), Luke Daemen (ORNL), Eric Novak (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Goran Arbanas (ORNL), Luiz Leal (ORNL), Germina Ilas (ORNL), William A. Wieselquist (ORNL)
Comparison of Coarse Energy Group Structures for Graphite Moderated Molten Salt Reactors and Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Modeling
11:15–11:35AM PDT
J. Faulkner (Georgia Tech), B. Petrovic (Georgia Tech)
Reactivity Impact of Updated 35Cl Nuclear Data on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
11:35–11:55AM PDT
T. Cisneros (TerraPower), M. Wargon (TerraPower), K. Hanselman (LANL), T. Kawano (LANL), S.A. Kuvin (LANL), H.Y. Lee (LANL)