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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. Wisshak, F. Käppeler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 3 | November 1983 | Pages 251-260
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17317
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The neutron capture and subthreshold fission cross section of 243Am was measured in the energy range from 5 to 250 keV using 197Au and 235U as the respective standards. Neutrons were produced via the 7Li(p,n) and the T(p,n) reaction with the Karlsruhe 3-MV pulsed Van de Graaff accelerator. Capture events were detected by two Moxon-Rae detectors with graphite and bismuth graphite converters, respectively. Fission events were registered by an Ne-213 liquid scintillator with pulse-shape discriminator equipment. Flight paths as short as 50 to 70 mm were used to obtain an optimum signal-to-background ratio. After correction for the different efficiency of the individual converter materials, the capture cross section could be determined with a total uncertainty of 3 to 6%. The respective values for the fission cross section are 8 to 12%. The results are compared to predictions of recent evaluations, which in some cases are severely discrepant.
