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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.
Wolfgang Schule
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 1 | July 1986 | Pages 113-123
Technical Paper | Materials Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24752
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In Cu-30 Zn alloys during irradiation with 2-MeV electrons from a Van de Graaff generator, the electrical resistivity first decreases due to radiation-enhanced ordering and then increases due to the formation of very small interstitial clusters. The activation energy during irradiation for both processes is approximately Qirr = 0.37 eV and is interpreted as half of the migration energy of freely migrating interstitials. For irradiation temperatures below 75°C, a second resistivity increase is found that is attributed to the formation of stable interstitial clusters. The observed radiation-enhanced diffusion rates below ambient temperature are many orders of magnitude smaller and larger than those predicted by the one- and the two-interstitial models, respectively, and these rates are in agreement with the predictions of the modified two-interstitial model.
