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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.
K. Y. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 152-156
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-865
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A method of estimating the margin of error for Thomson scattering systems based on polychromators has been devised during the operation of the Translation, Confinement, and Sustainment Upgrade (TCSU) experiment. This method first uses the propagation of uncertainty to determine the standard deviation (SD) of the ratio between two output signals. Later the SD or error is projected onto a characteristic curve that relates different ratios of the signal output to the electron temperature. This method brings an asymmetry to the error bounds, which goes accordingly to the ratio of the spectral response function for distinguishing higher temperatures. Also, the method follows with the nature of photon-statistics. As the plasma density is increased, as one might expect, the corresponding amplitude of the error bar becomes smaller.