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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.
Tadaaki Nemoto, Motoo Ishikawa, Yasuyoshi Yasaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 309-311
Field Reversed Configuration and Neutron Sources | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963621
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The separation capability of the charged particles is one of the most important requirements for direct energy converters (DEC) of D-3He fusion reactors. Yasaka, one of the authors, has demonstrated the principle of the Cusp DEC on a small-scale experimental device. Analyses of the device with a two-dimensional approximation and comparison with the experimental results give the following results. (1) The input power of plasma beam is estimated as P = 2W × E1.5, compared with the experimental results, where E is the ion energy and normalized with 0.1keV. (2) The current at point cusp tends to saturate as the ion energy increases as the experimental results show. (3) Ion current at point cusp depends on the shape of the magnetic field more strongly than its strength.
