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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.
Joseph M. Kelly, Charles W. Stewart, Judith M. Cuta
Nuclear Technology | Volume 100 | Number 2 | November 1992 | Pages 246-259
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34746
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The VIPRE-02 code is a thermal-hydraulic analysis code designed to model steady-state conditions and operational transients in light water reactor cores and vessels. It uses a two-fluid representation of two-phase flow that solves conservation equations for mass, momentum, and energy for each phase. The code uses a subchannel formulation of the conservation equations but also contains an optional three-dimensional (r-θ coordinates) representation of the lower plenum for vessel modeling. The six-equation formulation is solved implicitly, by a modified Gauss-Seidel iteration procedure, and has no time step size limitation for stability. Models for phase interaction based on flow regime mapping are provided that use empirical models and correlations for heat and mass transfer at the interface and vapor generation. In addition, the code contains as an option a dynamic flow regime model, which uses an interfacial area transport equation to determine the phase interaction terms.