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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.
C. Dubi, I. Israelashvili, T. Ridnik
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 176 | Number 3 | March 2014 | Pages 350-359
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-2
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron multiplicity counting (NMC) measurements are often affected by the detection system dead time. Still, dead time losses are often neglected in analytic NMC models, and most of the dead time corrections are done through empirical models, experimentally fitted to the measurement system. In the present paper, we introduce a new analytic model for calculating the effect of a system dead time on the outcome of NMC. The model is subjected to two assumptions (in addition to the standard model assumptions in multiplicity counting): The first is that the dead time can be described by a paralyzable model, and the second is that the dead time effect may occur only between neutrons arriving from the same source event. The second assumption is, in fact, a restriction on the source event rate in the system and, in certain cases, may eventually be translated into a restriction on the mass of the measured sample.