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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.
B. R. Wienke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | November 1983 | Pages 426-436
Technical Papers | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22792
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A one-dimensional, multigroup, discrete ordinates technique for computing electron energy deposition in plasmas is detailed. The Fokker-Planck collision operator is employed in the continuous approximation and electric fields (considered external) are included in the equation. Bremsstrahlung processes are not treated. Comparisons with analytic and Monte Carlo results are given. Fits to deposition profiles and energy scaling are proposed and discussed for monoenergetic and Maxwellian sources in the range, 0 to 150 keV, with and without uniform fields. The techniques employed to track electrons are generally useful in situations where the background plasma temperature is an order of magnitude smaller than the electron energy and collective plasma effects are negligible. We have used the approach successfully in laser pellet implosion applications.