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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.
D. B. MacMillan, M. L. Storm
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 4 | August 1963 | Pages 369-380
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26547
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The applicability of the zero-neutron-lifetime approximation in describing the effects of neutron-level fluctuations is investigated for reactivities near and above prompt critical. It is concluded that meaningful statistical information can be obtained by the zero-lifetime model above prompt critical, and an approximate procedure for joining this model to a deterministic finite-lifetime model is suggested. Illustrative examples, comparing numerical results obtained by this approximation with more accurate finite-lifetime statistical calculations, are presented. In addition, application is made to Los Alamos and Livermore superprompt-critical burst experiments which fall outside of the practical computing range of the finite-lifetime model described in Part II. It is found that the agreement of calculation and experiment is as good as was found previously for a set of subprompt-critical burst experiments.