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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.
P. Mosca, L. Bourhrara, A. Calloo, A. Gammicchia, F. Goubioud, L. Mao, F. Madiot, F. Malouch, E. Masiello, F. Moreau, S. Santandrea, D. Sciannandrone, I. Zmijarevic, E. Y. Garcia-Cervantes, G. Valocchi, J. F. Vidal, F. Damian, P. Laurent, A. Willien, A. Brighenti, L. Graziano, B. Vezzoni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S17-S30
Review Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2334992
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APOLLO3® is a French deterministic reactor code for lattice and core calculations. It has been developed at CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique) with the financial and technical support of EDF (Electricité de France) and Framatome since 2007. The main goal of APOLLO3 is to provide a unified deterministic tool that includes the capabilities of the French lattice and core codes of the previous generation, APOLLO2, CRONOS2, ECCO, and ERANOS, introducing many improvements to reactor physical modeling in a modern and flexible software architecture platform for research and development and industrial activities. This paper presents an overview of the main new capabilities of the APOLLO3 code in the lattice and the core components.