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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|Reactor Design and Analysis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024|1:30–3:15PM PDT|Franciscan C
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Scott Richards (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Eva E. Davidson
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A Study of Fuel Choice Effects when Transitioning to a Closed Fuel Cycle
1:30–1:50PM PDT
S. Richards (ANL), T. Kim (ANL)
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3D Full Core Depletion Analysis Using BSOLVE+MCNP6 Analysis of the Washington State University Reactor
1:50–2:10PM PDT
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Glenn E. Sjoden (Univ. Utah), C. Corey Hines (Washington State)
Thermal Analysis of the Sirius-3 Nuclear Propulsion Fuel Experiments
2:10–2:30PM PDT
Frederick N. Gleicher (INL), Mustafa K. Jaradat (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
Progress on Transport and Transmutation Analysis of Proton Beam Irradiating Long-Lived Spent Nuclear Waste
2:30–2:50PM PDT
Charlotte I. Wickert (MIT), Grigor Tukharyan (MIT), Jiankai Yu (MIT), Areg Danagoulian (MIT), Zachary Hartwig (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
Long Time Scale Multiphysics Simulation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister in MOOSE
2:50–3:10PM PDT
Rodrigo de Oliveira (INL), Joshua Hanophy (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL), Derek Gaston (INL)
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