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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.
Y. W. Wang, B. S. Pei, W. K. Lin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 95 | Number 1 | July 1991 | Pages 87-94
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34570
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Methods using the signals detected by a single void fraction sensor to identify four kinds of typical vertical, cocurrent, upward, two-phase tube flow patterns are investigated. By analyzing 100 sets of time-varying void fraction signals acquired from an impedance device in an air-water two-phase loop, the results of the various methods are evaluated and demonstrated. With the high-frequency contribution fraction (HFCF) criteria, the success rate is 81%. An auxiliary criterion (the void fraction criterion) is proposed to increase the success rate to 92%. The results and the criteria from this study are compared with earlier studies. From the comparison, the applicability of the HFCF criterion to a system in which void fraction can be measured directly is verified.
