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Holtec announces new fuel arrival ahead of Palisades restart
Palisades nuclear power plant has received its first fuel shipment, a key step ahead of its highly anticipated restart by the end of the year.
Located in Covert Township, Mich., Palisades will be the first U.S. nuclear facility to restart after being slated for decommissioning. The Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly Three Mile Island-1, is the next decommissioned nuclear reactor to be resurrected, with an expected restart by 2027.
W. J. Lackey, R. A. Bradley, W. H. Pechin, T. L. Hebble
Nuclear Technology | Volume 14 | Number 1 | April 1972 | Pages 105-107
Technical Paper | Session on Physics of Nuclear Materials Safeguards / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31104
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With a statistically designed experiment, it is demonstrated that gravimetric determinations of the oxygen-to-metal ratio of (U,Pu)O2 depend strongly on the day of analysis, slightly on the particular sintering run, and not detectably on position in either the sintering furnace or the analysis furnace. The average oxygen-to-metal ratio of a single sintering run can be determined to a precision of ±0.005 at the 95% confidence level.
