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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.
Benoit Forget
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 9 | September 2026 | Pages 1992-2002
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2567813
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This paper presents an efficient Monte Carlo mode for simulating subcritical systems with external sources. While solving these systems as a fixed source is possible, the length of the histories grows significantly as the system nears criticality, making run time significant. Instead, a hybrid method is proposed that leverages the traditional eigensolver while including elements of the external source. The method builds on prior work,but proposes an approach that maintains the size of the source bank and also provides a natural way of scaling tallies with the true multiplication factor. The method is demonstrated on a subcritical sphere with varying point source position and energy spectrum, as well as an approach to criticality problem. The results demonstrate good agreement with the fixed-source mode, with much improved particle tracking rates for near-critical problems.