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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.
Amr Abdelhady, Rowayda Fayez M. AbouAlo, Mohamed K. Shaat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 3 | March 2026 | Pages 696-706
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2494186
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The safe storage and transportation of spent nuclear fuel is a critical aspect of nuclear power plant operations. This article delves into the estimation of radiation dose rates around the TN-24 cask, which is designed to hold 24 spent fuel assemblies from VVER-1200 reactors that have been stored for 10 years as a minimal decay time in temporary storage. The ORIGEN-ARP code was used to determine the spectrums of the delayed neutrons and photons associated with their intensities after 10 years of decay time after transfer from the reactor core. The resulting dose rates were calculated using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP6.1) code and compared with the regulatory limits set by 10 CFR 71 and 10 CFR 72, ensuring that the cask design meets the safety standards for both storage and transportation scenarios.