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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.
Muhammad Rizwan Ali, Murat Serdar Aygul, Deokjung Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 1 | March 2026 | Pages S754-S769
Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2502714
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This article presents the novel algorithmic developments and performance analysis of the GPU-optimized REActor Physics Monte Carlo (GREAPMC) graphical processing unit (GPU)–accelerated multigroup Monte Carlo (MC) code tailored specifically for pressurized water reactor simulations. GREAPMC tackles the thread divergence issue inherent in history-based neutron tracking on GPUs by introducing two new optimization strategies. The first novel approach dynamically replaces inactive particles with new ones during the execution of the transport loop, while the second strategy enhances efficiency by capping the history length during active cycles at a predefined maximum number of interactions. Subsequently, it sorts and invokes the kernel with only the surviving neutrons. The maximum number of interactions is automatically adjusted while considering cycle time during inactive cycles. Both methods significantly accelerate computation compared to MCS, a high-fidelity MC code developed at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, with the latter approach demonstrating the most substantial acceleration. GREAPMC further enhances efficiency by adopting cell-based geometry modeling. This approach eliminates cell search overhead, ensuring consistent execution times even as the number of cells increases. Overall, these algorithmic developments in GREAPMC achieve substantial computational acceleration against MCS. A single GPU card in this study demonstrates performance equivalent to approximately 570 cores from the specific CPU model used.