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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.
Surian Pinem, Liem Peng Hong, Wahid Luthfi, Tukiran Surbakti, Donny Hartanto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 10 | October 2024 | Pages 1935-1949
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2284433
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The purpose of this study is to determine the kinetic parameters of the RSG-GAS equilibrium core. The calculated kinetic parameters are the effective delayed neutron fraction βeff, the neutron generation time Ʌ, and the prompt neutron lifetime ℓ since they are related to the safety of nuclear operations. The kinetic parameters were calculated using the Serpent 2 code with the ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data libraries. Calculations were performed using various adjoint-weighted methods such as Meulekamp’s method, Nauchi’s method, the Iterated Fission Probability method, and the Perturbation Technique. The calculated results of the six-group delayed neutron fraction by the Meulekamp and the IFP methods showed no significant difference. Choosing the IFP method as the reference, the maximum difference for βeff (694 pcm) is 0.73%, and the maximum difference for Ʌ and ℓ is 1.89%. The calculated kinetic parameters with ENDF/B-VII.1 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 are quite close, with a maximum difference of 0.9%. The sensitivity analysis results indicate several nuclides and reaction types that dominantly affect the βeff and Λ. The results of the kinetic parameter calculations can be used for the safety analysis of the RSG-GAS equilibrium core.