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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.
William C. Dawn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 8 | August 2026 | Pages 1784-1797
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2551471
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Although it is commonplace to solve the space-time kinetics form of the neutron diffusion equation and the delayed neutron precursor equations, accurate benchmark solutions for such problems are lacking. In this work, an analytic solution to the neutron kinetics equations is provided via the Method of Manufactured Solutions. The form of the solution is a manufactured neutron flux and a prescribed absorption cross section . For the first time, an exact solution for the neutron flux as a function of space and time is provided in a form that can be used to verify existing neutron kinetics methods. Then, this solution is used to verify the neutron kinetics methods in the LMFR Utility for Physics Informed Nuclear Engineering (LUPINE) to demonstrate how this solution can be used for practical verification and quantifying the order of convergence of existing neutron kinetics methods.