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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.
F. S. Dietrich, J. D. Anderson, R. W. Bauer, S. M. Grimes, D. P. McNabb
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 159 | Number 2 | June 2008 | Pages 213-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE159-213
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new method has been applied to the determination of neutron nonelastic cross sections for iron 56Fe and lead 208Pb for energies between 5 and 26 MeV. These data have estimated errors of only a few percent and do not suffer from the ambiguities encountered in earlier nonelastic data. We attempt to fit these high-precision data using both a semiclassical single phase shift model (nuclear Ramsauer model) as well as a recent global optical model that well reproduces a wide body of neutron scattering observables. At the 5% uncertainty level, both models produce satisfactory fits. However, neither model gives satisfactory fits to these new precise data. We conclude that fitting precise data, i.e., data with errors of ~2% or less, may require a nuclear mass dependence of radii that reflects structure effects such as shell closures.