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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.
R. Sundaresan, J. O'M. Bockris
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 261-265
Technical Note | Nuclear Reaction in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30330
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Spectroscopically pure carbon rods were subjected to a carbon arc in highly purified water. The arc current varied from 20 to 25 A and was passed intermittently for several hours. The original carbon contained ∼2 parts per million (ppm) iron, and the detritus contained up to 286 ppm of iron. The carbon rods remained cool to the touch at >2 cm from their tips. Adsorption of iron from water or the surrounding atmosphere was established as not being the cause of the increase of iron. There is a weak correlation between the iron formed and the time of passage of current. When dissolved O2, was replaced by N2 in the solution, no iron was formed. Hence, the mechanism was suggested as the origin of the iron. The increase in temperature of the solution was consistent with expectation based on this reaction.