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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.
Qicang Shen, Brendan Kochunas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1364-1385
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2159276
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Solving initial value problems with high-order methods receives considerable attention in many fields because these methods can potentially improve the accuracy of the simulation results with lower computational cost than low-order methods. Most methods, however, are either complicated to implement or unstable when the order of accuracy is high. The spectral deferred correction (SDC) method is a stable, robust, and efficient high-order time-integration scheme capable of an arbitrary order of accuracy. In this paper, we apply the SDC method to solve the initial value problem of the point kinetics equations (PKEs). For our implementation, we show that SDC is -stable for orders up to eight and the order of accuracy is verified for PKE problems with a range of different reactivities. A fifth-order SDC method was then implemented to solve the exact PKE in the transient multilevel method of MPACT. The error from solutions of the exact PKE with SDC is shown to be negligible. The investigations made here can provide the foundation for future investigations simulating the neutron transport problem using the high-order methods for both spatial discretization and time integration.