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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.
Paul N. Stevens
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 109-114
Deep Penetration: Problem and Method of Solution | Special Section Contents / Sheilding | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23084
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The formal basis of the use of calculated importance information for biasing forward and adjoint Monte Carlo deep penetration shielding problems is presented. The distinction between the “point value” and “event value” functions for adjoint problems is discussed. The analysis reveals that the emergent particle density, and not the particle flux density, is the proper choice of biasing function for the selection of the ad junctor's next collision site. This is analogous to the choice of the event value as the value function for the biased selection of the next collision site in the forward analysis. A numerical illustrative problem consisting of a concrete cylinder with an axial duct, a plane source on the bottom surface, and four joint detectors outside the emergent top surface is used to demonstrate this theory.