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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.
Qi Li, Song Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Xiaojing Xu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 5 | May 2024 | Pages 993-1020
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2230416
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The aim of this paper is to construct a new numerical scheme for the nonlinear gray radiative transfer (GRT) equations, namely, the asymptotic-preserving (AP) -based unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The constructed scheme is obtained by combing the UGKS for spatial discretization with the hybrid method for angular discretization. Since the is a hybrid angular discrete method of both and methods, the current -based UGKS can not only mitigate the ray effects of the method largely, but also suppress the oscillations of the original method. Furthermore, we show that the current -based UGKS also inherits the AP property of UGKS. A number of one-dimensional and two-dimensional numerical experiments are presented that validate the performance of the current scheme in both optically thin and thick regimes, as well as in mitigating the ray effects. Moreover, it can capture the initial layer solution without requiring additional treatments.