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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.
Philippe Humbert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 4 | April 2026 | Pages 847-864
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2480520
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For a number of applications like low-source reactor start-up or neutron coincidence counting, it is necessary to take into account the stochastic nature of neutron transport and go beyond the average neutron density, which is the solution to the linear Boltzmann equation. In this work, we are particularly interested in calculating the moments and probabilities of the number of neutrons detected during a time window. It is known that in the case of a single initial neutron, these quantities are the solution of a system of coupled adjoint transport equations and that a neutron source can be taken into account a second time using summations with the source strength. The purpose of the current work is first to present the derivation of these equations in a form where they can be solved up to an arbitrary order and where the fission terms are expanded according to the moments of the fission multiplicity. For simplicity, the derivation is first presented in a lumped, also called point, model approximation before considering the full phase-space case. Thereafter, we describe the implementation of the solution algorithm in the deterministic, discrete ordinates code PANDA. Finally, we present some numerical results and intercode comparisons for verification purposes and to illustrate the applicability of the method.