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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.
Stefano Marchetti, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 6 | June 2026 | Pages 1323-1339
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2515349
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Multi-unit (MU) nuclear power plants (NPPs) share safety features. As these may degrade in time, we propose a framework of an integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment to consider their time-dependent fragility. Physics-of-failure models of the fragility of the shared safety features are embedded into a dynamic model of the accident scenario evolution, whose uncertainties are accounted for by Monte Carlo simulation. We apply the proposed framework to a case study concerning a MU NPP composed of four small modular dual fluid reactors sharing the emergency core cooling systems and the emergency diesel generators. The results show the effectiveness of the framework in providing a dynamic risk picture that accounts for the degradation of shared safety features.