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Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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.
Technical Session
Saturday, April 10, 2021|4:30–5:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Brian Andersen (NC State Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Chaitee Godbole (NC State Univ.)
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Neutronic Analysis of the Submersion-Subcritical Safe Space (S4) Reactor using Reduced Enrichment Uranium Fuel
Chaitee M. Godbole (North Carolina State University), Takanori Kajihara (Texas A&M University College Station), Jared Magnusson (University of California - Los Angeles)
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Geant4 Modeling of Energy and Charge Deposition in Spacecraft Materials
Youssef Abouhussien (Virginia Commonwealth University), Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonweatlh University)
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