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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.
Yuehang Li, Donghao He, Xiaojing Liu, Qingquan Pan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 5 | May 2026 | Pages 1118-1135
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2510708
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Transient Fission Matrix Combination (TFMC) method is a novel hybrid algorithm that performs transient neutron transport calculations with high fidelity and computational efficiency. In this paper, we verify the TFMC method using the control rod insertion/withdrawal C5G7-TD benchmark. The TD4 test case involves five complex control rod movement patterns in a four-assembly light water reactor model. On 20 parallel cores, each 16-s transient simulation completes in approximately 2 min (excluding database generation time). The computed total power and power distributions agree closely with reference results in all cases. These findings demonstrate the TFMC method’s potential as an efficient and accurate tool for transient neutron transport simulations.