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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 2 | November 1967 | Pages 182-187
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17329
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From an empirical choice of the shadowing of one control-plate element by another, expressions are derived for the reactivity worth of systems of circumferential control plates. The expressions contain three parameters which are determined when independent calculations of three control systems have been made. The parameters can be expressed in terms of the worth of the complete control plate, the increase in reactivity due to unshadowing of an end of a control plate and the decay constant of the assumed exponentially decaying shadowing function. Application of the expressions to a particular reactor design, where circumferential control plates separate core from radial reflector, shows that the analysis is accurate for those situations where the number of control plates is not large. The analysis neglects neutron absorption by the edge of a control plate so that it underestimates reactivity worth in situations involving large numbers of control plates where the surface area of the plate edges becomes significant.