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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.
William C. Dawn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 5 | May 2025 | Pages 725-735
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2396173
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new benchmark solution has been developed to aid in the development of neutron kinetics solvers for hexagonal geometries, such as those in water-water energetic reactors. This benchmark problem is based on the two-dimensional, two-group, International Atomic Energy Agency–Hex steady-state benchmark problem. Two transient problems are presented: a ramp and a step transient. To create a benchmark-quality solution to this transient problem, a basic neutron kinetics model was added to the computer program LUPINE (Liquid metal–cooled fast reactor Utility for Physics Informed Nuclear Engineering). LUPINE solves neutron kinetics equations in general unstructured mesh. First, the LUPINE kinetics solvers are verified using the TWIGL benchmark problems. Then the methods in LUPINE are used to perform a spatiotemporal convergence analysis to ensure that the solutions are sufficiently converged. Finally, Richardson extrapolation is performed to obtain the reference solutions for these new kinetics benchmark problems.