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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.
M. Yamada, N. Pomphrey, A. Morita, Y. Ono, M. Katsurai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 161-168
Overview Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947061
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We investigate experimentally and theoretically the global MHD characteristics of an ultra-low aspect ratio tokamak (ULART). Since the ULART requires a substantially smaller toroidal field current, Itf, than conventional tokamaks, it has important reactor advantages. By fully utilizing the TS-3 merging spheromak facility with a slender center conductor, we have carried out an experimental study of the ultra-low aspect ratio tokamak with aspect ratio reaching as low as 1.05. The ULART is found to be similar to the spheromak in its strong paramagnetism and magnetic helical pitch. In this extreme limit, we investigate the transition of the spheromak (qa = 0, Itf = 0) to a ULART plasma (qa = 5–20, Itf < Ip). It is observed that a small current at the center conductor can significantly improve the overall stability of the formed plasmas by effectively stabilizing the tilt mode. We identify a threshold of Itf << Ip with qcyl(a) << 1 for global tilt/shift modes. This initial observation is in agreement with a global MHD theory.
