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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.
Katsumi Hayashi, Hideo Hirayama, Kohei Iwanaga, Kenjiro Kondo, Seishiro Suzuki, Zenko Yoshida, Nobuaki Sato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 10 | October 2026 | Pages 2334-2345
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2585764
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Knowledge of radioactivity distribution is important for the decommissioning of postaccident plants. We derived methods to obtain the 137Cs contamination density of the inner surface of a pipe using a pinhole-type gamma camera, surface dose rate measurements using a Teletector, a GF10, and a lead-shielded ionization chamber. Using these methods, we obtained the 137Cs contamination density distribution of a Unit 1 standby gas treatment system outdoor pipe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Considering the characteristics of each method, these results were consistent. We obtained useful data for the decommissioning program.