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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.
B. D. Ganapol, D. Mostacci
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 4 | April 2026 | Pages 766-780
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2423130
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This presentation concerns the development of yet another benchmark in a series for solution of the linear neutron transport equation, but using the Double PN (DPN) approximation. As more and more numerical and analytical solutions to the linear particle transport equation appear, their verification becomes increasingly important. There are numerous ways of solving the one-dimensional monoenergetic neutron transport equation in plane geometry, where PN and DPN methods play a prominent role. Here, a new method of solution, based on matrix algebra and scaling to avoid overflows and leading to a response matrix solution, is derived and demonstrated for a highly anisotropically scattering medium with a beam source impinging on a scattering and absorbing slab medium.