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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.
Krishna Chetty, Subash Sharma, John Buchanan, Martin Lopez-de-Bertodano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 10 | October 2021 | Pages 1087-1097
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1898920
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A new dynamic verification of the one-dimensional (1-D) computational Two-Fluid Model (TFM) using the Type II density wave instability (DWI) theory of Ishii is presented. Verification requires convergence in the sense of the Lax Equivalence Theorem and dynamic comparison with the DWI theory. Rigorous verification of the computational TFM must be performed with a computational model that is well posed without regularization because, otherwise, since the theory of Ishii is well posed, regularization would make the TFM incompatible with it.
Furthermore, since the TFM is well posed, it was possible to implement a second-order numerical method with a flux limiter that, together with a fine mesh, achieves numerical convergence. This is significant because numerical convergence and consistency, both of which are demonstrated, are prerequisites for the rigorous dynamic verification according to the Lax Equivalence Theorem. Thus, the apparent but previously unproven numerical verification of the 1-D TFM to simulate the two-phase long wave DWI instability is hereby performed.