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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.
H. P. Chou, J. N. Ning, T. M. Tsai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 101-109
Technical Note | Waste Management Special / Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34771
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Two topics are discussed: a method to evaluate and construct a sensor failure detection network and use of the network for signal validation of a complex system such as a nuclear power plant. The network is arranged in a tree structure and consists of plantwide sensor measurements and component models. Sensors are categorized into four classes via a logic state analysis to determine the effectiveness of the tree layouts and to reveal deficiencies in the sensor arrangements. Network building is automatic via a rule-based algorithm. Besides analytical redundancy and parity relations, plantwide consistency checks are implemented in the validation scheme to detect possible common-mode failures and modeling or process faults. Data are structured with an entity relationship and processed with an object-oriented technique. The working sequence is arranged using topological sorting to facilitate on-line, real-time applications. For a demonstration, the package is implemented on a microcomputer and applied to a pressurized water reactor plant for safety parameter validation. Its performance in detecting hypothetical sensor failures during power maneuver transients is presented.