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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.
A. Tsechanski, D. Fedorchenko, V. Starovoitova
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 1 | January 2024 | Pages 138-144
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2205816
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A production route for 99mTc and 101Tc using the (γ,p) reaction was considered. For an electron beam with energy of 40 MeV and power of 10 kW, distributions of produced 99mTc and 101Tc were obtained. For the optimized target (0.5 g) configurations, values of 99mTc specific activities of 9.53 GBq/g (0.26 Ci/g) for a one-stage setup and of 1.77 GBq/g (0.049 Ci/g) for a two-stage setup were obtained. For 101Tc, the corresponding values were 6.51 GBq/g (0.18 Ci/g) and 1.24 GBq/g (0.033 Ci/g).