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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.
A. B. Kukushkin, V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov, A. R. Terentiev
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 325-328
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947097
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Experimental results are presented which verify the possibility, formerly predicted,1 of the formation of a closed, spheromak-like magnetic configuration (SLMC) in a plasma focus discharge. The model is based on the self-generated transformation of a toroidal (i.e. azimuthal) field into a poloidal one. At its final stage, the SLMC takes the form of a squeezed spheromak, which includes a combined Z-v-pinch at its major axis, exhibiting a power density several orders of magnitude larger than that measured experimentally on a force-free flux-conserver-confined spheromak formed by helicity injection. The results suggest a possibility of further concentrating the plasma power density by means of compressing the SLMC-trapped plasma by the residual magnetic field.