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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.
Matteo Stanzani, Donato M. Castelluccio, Francesco Lodi, Vincenzo G. Peluso, Giacomo Grasso, Marco Sumini
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 1 | March 2026 | Pages S342-S365
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2455341
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Depletion calculations and related sensitivity analyses are fundamental in designing nuclear reactors. Looking at the core design of liquid metal–cooled fast reactors, a novel procedure based on the Generalized Perturbation Theory was developed and implemented in the deterministic ERANOS suite to extend its current capabilities related to depletion-related sensitivity analysis. Specifically, a partial perturbative coupling of the burnup equations was introduced to estimate the sensitivities of final isotopic concentrations to microscopic cross sections. First, the procedure was successfully verified through a simple test case by comparing its results with an analytical solution obtained via MATLAB©. Then, a more complex case was studied to highlight the differences between the new perturbatively coupled configuration and the default decoupled one. Overall, the coupling proved to have a nonnegligible impact on the sensitivity coefficients, opening the path for further extending the procedure and applying it to more realistic problems.