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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.
Brian F. Ives, Harry T. Cullinan, Jr., John Y. Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 18 | Number 1 | April 1973 | Pages 29-45
Technical Paper | Radiation | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A16105
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A theoretical and experimental investigation of a radioactive fluidized bed chemical reactor is described. The fluidized particles are composed of radio-strontium silicate. The chemical system is the conversion of toluene to benzotrichloride. Experimental work defines the variables affecting bed porosity versus throughput at high bed expansions where significant radiation deposition could be achieved. Homogeneous fluidization is achieved by developing a classification technique to obtain a batch of radioactive microspheres with a narrow size and density distribution. Experimental data obtained with a semi-batch reactor using beta rays from a Van de Graaff generator lead to the conclusion that the reaction proceeds according to -order kinetics. The axial-dispersed plug flow model for three consecutive reactions and -order kinetics results in four simultaneous nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations. These equations with the appropriate boundary conditions are solved numerically using a finite difference technique. An economically optimum reactor design utilizing recycle is presented for the last part of the plant.