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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.
T. Matsumura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 3 | July 2016 | Pages 407-420
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-86
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The neutron escape probability from a rectangular cell is investigated for the collision probability method. Since the numerical calculation of the escape probability requires multiple integrations, resulting in a long computing time, semianalytical approximation of the multiple integrations is proposed to reduce the computing time. By approximating the result of integration in the z-direction by a polynomial expression divided into ranges, it is possible to perform the integrations in the x- and y-directions analytically. The computing time of the present semianalytical approximation is reduced by one to two orders of magnitude compared with that required for the conventional numerical integration. Moreover, a lookup escape probability table for rectangular cells calculated using the semianalytical approximation enables the calculation of the escape probability for an arbitrary rectangle with a much shorter computing time and practical precision (<0.1% error). In addition, a method of applying the semianalytical approximation and a lookup table to the collision probability calculation for an x-y geometry is discussed.