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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.
Kiyoshi Yoshikawa, Yasushi Yamamoto, Hisayuki Toku, Akira Kobayashi, Toru Okazaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 4 | July 1989 | Pages 1541-1559
Technical Paper | Energy Storage, Switching, and Conversion | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A25343
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A 5-yr study of beam direct energy conversion was performed at the Kyoto University Institute of Atomic Energy to clarify the essential features of direct energy recovery from monoenergetic ion beams so that the performance characteristics of energy recovery can be predicted reasonably well by numerical calculations. The study used an improved version of an electrostatically electron-suppressed beam direct converter originally proposed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Secondary electron suppressor grids were added, and a helium ion beam was used with typical parameters of 15.4 keV, 90 mA, and 100 ms. By adopting negatively biased secondary electron suppressor grids, the energy recovery efficiency increased from 72 ± 4 to 87 ± 6% even at relatively high pressures of 10−2 Pa, based on three independent measurements of the incident ion current, including a newly developed “in situ” measurement by a Rogowski coil sensor. The operational region could also be extended to more high-pressure regions. A comparison of experimental results with numerical results by the two-dimensional Kyoto University Advanced DART (KUAD) code, including evaluation of atomic processes, shows excellent agreement. Adoption of the mesh-type electron suppressor instead of the solid suppressor results in further improvements in the beam direct energy recovery.
