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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. Chen, C. A. Erdman, M. F. Kennedy, A. B. Reynolds
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 4 | April 1983 | Pages 459-472
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18649
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A homogeneous nucleation-condensation growth model was developed for calculating particle-size distributions measured in capacitor discharge vaporization (CDV) experiments conducted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Uranium dioxide pellets were partially vaporized in an argon environment by rapid energy deposition through capacitor discharge. This was followed by rapid expansion and subsequent condensation of the UO2 vapor. Measured primary particle-size distributions of the resulting aerosols were lognormal, with a geometric mean particle diameter of (0.014 ± 0.002) µm and a geometric standard deviation of 1.7 ± 0.1. It was postulated that the expanding UO2 vapor compressed the surrounding argon as in a spherical shock tube and that the aerosol was generated by homogeneous nucleation and condensation growth in the resulting rarefaction wave. The calculated motion of the U02-argon interface is in approximate agreement with the movies of the expansion process. The calculated particle-size distributions are in agreement with the measured distributions except at the large particle end. This agreement indicates that the small primary particles from the CDV tests resulted from homogeneous nucleation and condensation growth, as assumed in the analytical model.