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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.
Jinhui Liu, Fangyu Gu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 2 | November 2002 | Pages 164-168
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3330
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This paper presents a new mass and energy estimating method for loose parts (LPs) combining the Karhunen-Loève (K-L) transform and neural network theories in the frequency domain. The detection of LPs was performed using simulated acoustic sensors mounted on the wall of a simulator of a reactor vessel. The impact events were simulated by simple pendulums. The data sampled in the time domain was changed to power spectral densities in the frequency domain using the fast Fourier transform. Then, the K-L transform was used to compress the original information. The final feature space's dimensions can be much less than the original ones. And, the original information remains as much as possible. The experiment showed that the impact characteristics of the LPs could be exactly depicted in the compressed feature space. The calculated mass values were approximately equal to the actual ones.