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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.
Horst Roepenack, Fritz U. Schlemmer, Gerhard J. Schlosser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 2 | May 1987 | Pages 175-186
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33982
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Thermal plutonium recycling has been demonstrated by Kraftwerk Union AG/Alkem on a large scale since 1972 in power plants at Obrigheim and Gundremmingen, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). An improved mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication technology has been available since 1981. Such improved MOX fuel is currently being used at Obrigheim, Neckarwestheim, Unterweser, Grafenrheinfeld, FRG, and Beznau 2, Switzerland. The MOX fuel assemblies currently inserted exhibit an operating performance that is comparable to that of uranium fuel assemblies. Postirradiation investigations on MOX fuel show high mechanical stability, low shrinkage and swelling, and good behavior during power transients. On the basis of this experience, large-scale use of MOX fuel is technically feasible.
