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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.
William P. Kelleher, J. Wiley Davidson, Gary R. Thayer, Donald J. Dudziak
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 3 | May 1990 | Pages 466-475
Technical Note | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29221
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A radiation shielding analysis was performed on the Confinement Physics Research Facility (CPRF) under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A reversed-field pinch device, the ZTH, was examined in an effort to obtain an estimate of the spatial distribution of the dose seen by both personnel and electronic components. In the Monte Carlo transport analysis, the MCNP code was used to estimate the neutron and gamma-ray doses and differential flux (in energy) spectra at ten locations within the CPRF. The complex geometry of the ZTH dictated that the problem be solved in a two-step process: First, a cylindrical surface source enclosing the ZTH was computed, and then this source was used as the radiation source for the CPRF building calculations. Using a source strength of 1015 neutrons, identical calculations were performed for both deuterium-deuterium and deuterium-tritium fusion plasmas.