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Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
G. Leinweber, J. Burke, C. R. Lubitz, H. D. Knox, N. J. Drindak, R. C. Block, R. E. Slovacek, C. J. Werner, N. C. Francis, Y. Danon, B. E. Moretti
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 134 | Number 1 | January 2000 | Pages 50-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2099
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron capture and transmission measurements were performed by the time-of-flight technique at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute LINAC using metallic zirconium samples. The capture measurement was made at the 25-m flight station with a multiplicity-type capture detector, and the transmission total cross-section measurements were performed at the 25-m flight station with a 6Li glass scintillation detector. Resonance parameters were determined by a combined analysis of all 11 data sets (4 capture and 7 transmission) using the least-squares multilevel R-matrix code REFIT.The present measurements were undertaken to resolve discrepancies between common usage (ENDF/B-VI) and the recent measurements of Salah et al. for the 300-eV zirconium doublet. The present measurements support the Salah et al. conclusions. Specifically, the results confirm the assignment of J = 3 for the 91Zr 292.5-eV resonance and include all significant resonances up to 2.5 keV. The zirconium resonance parameters and n, determined in the present measurement, are compared with the ENDF/B-VI parameters.
