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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.
Teodosi Simeonov, Charles Wemple, Joshua Hykes
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 12 | December 2025 | Pages 2066-2072
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2455347
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Studsvik’s approach to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) analyses combines isotopic concentrations, fluxes, and cross sections, calculated by the CASMO5 neutron transport and depletion code, with irradiation history data from the SIMULATE5 reactor core simulator and tabulated isotopic decay data. These data sources are used and processed by the SNF code to compute the SNF characteristics. Recent advances in the system, including uncertainty analyses of the computed decay heat power, are presented in this paper. The decay heat power uncertainty is evaluated accounting for the uncertainties in the operating conditions and uncertainties in the nuclear and decay data. The model involves a series of stochastic perturbations combined with the linear propagation law. The uncertainty quantification complements the best estimate decay heat power.