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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.
S. Manservisi, V. G. Molinari, A. Nespoli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | May 1995 | Pages 237-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30386
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The plasma generated in a spherical pinch device consists of a linear discharge along the diameter of a spherical vessel and of an implosion that compresses the linear plasma. Because the linear discharge by itself is found to emit pulses of soft X rays, this phenomenon is investigated by considering a spatially uniform plasma subjected to an electric field. With an appropriate change of variables, a one-dimensional time-independent Boltzmann Fokker-Planck equation is transformed into a confluent hypergeometric equation. The electron distribution function is then calculated in closed form together with the density current to obtain the X-ray spectra from such plasmas.