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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.
O. F. Smidts, J. Devooght
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 129 | Number 3 | July 1998 | Pages 224-245
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1978
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A biased Monte Carlo methodology is presented for solving the transport of radionuclide chains through a porous medium in the context of the risk assessment of radioactive waste repositories. It is based on the construction of random walks from an integral equation. This leads to a biased Monte Carlo simulation because it uses the solution of an adjoint reference problem to improve the efficiency of the calculations. The transport of a radionuclide chain is modeled by introducing the notion of a radionuclide "state." The consequence is that only one integral equation has to be considered for the simulation in a continuous - discrete space (r,t;i), where r is the radionuclide position vector, t is time, and i is the radionuclide state. Transport in a random velocity field is also considered by using double randomization techniques.The methodology is illustrated by numerical results on test problems; the score of the simulations being the quantity of radionuclides transferred, during the mission time, to the upper surface of the geological domain. Validations of the simulations are first realized by comparison with analytical solutions, and the influence of biasing techniques is put in evidence. Finally, simulations conducted simultaneously with the generation of a large number of random velocity fields illustrate the feasibility of the method for the transport of radionuclides in a stochastic medium.