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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.
Eitan Wacholder, Ezra Elias, Yoram Merlis
Nuclear Technology | Volume 110 | Number 2 | May 1995 | Pages 228-237
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35120
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An optimization artificial neural networks model is developed for solving the ill-posed inverse transport problem associated with localizing radioactive sources in a medium with known properties and dimensions. The model is based on the recurrent (or feedback) Hop-field network with fixed weights. The source distribution is determined based on the response of a limited number of external detectors of known spatial deployment in conjunction with a radiation transport model. The algorithm is tested and evaluated for a large number of simulated two-dimensional cases. Computations are carried out at different noise levels to account for statistical errors encountered in engineering applications. The sensitivity to noise is found to depend on the number of detectors and on their spatial deployment. A pretest empirical procedure is, therefore, suggested for determining an effective arrangement of detectors for a given problem.