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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.
Masanori Hara, Miki Shoji, Tsukasa Aso
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 3 | April 2020 | Pages 163-169
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1661720
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Liquid scintillation counters (LSCs) have been widely used for low-level tritium measurements. To obtain an accurate tritium activity using a LSC, a quenching correction is required. The quenching occurs from interruptions to the scintillation process (chemical quenching) and by absorption of scintillation photons by colored substances (color quenching). There is no common method for the correction of color quenching. Here, two-dimensional (2-D) scintillation spectra were measured with a conventional LSC connected to an external multichannel analyzer. The LSC had two photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). A 2-D spectrum was constructed from pulse heights from both PMTs. In a less-quenching cocktail, the 2-D scintillation spectra extended along a 45-deg line. However, the shape of the spectrum broadened with increasing color quenching and thus gave information about the color quenching. The effect of color quenching was qualitatively less significant in the relationship between the tritium counting efficiency and the quenching index parameter.