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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.
Greg J. Evans
Nuclear Technology | Volume 116 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 293-305
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35285
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Any release of radioiodine to the environment following a reactor accident depends to a large extent on its volatility within a containment structure. A common measure of iodine volatility is the water-air volumetric iodine partition coefficient (IPC), defined as the ratio of aqueous to airborne radioiodine concentrations. The impact of pH and total iodine concentration on volatility is evaluated through experiments and modeling to establish the relevant trends and improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The model consists of kinetic expressions for 125 reactions. The IPC is evaluated experimentally by irradiating, at 0.25 kGy/h and 25°C, 131I-labeled CsI solutions ranging in concentration from 10−8 to 10−4 Mand in pH from 3 to 12. Both the experiments and the modeling indicate that under acidic conditions, the IPC for 10−6 M solutions is substantially higher than that for 10−5 M solutions. The predicted dependence of the IPC on pH for acidic 10−5 M solutions is in good agreement with that observed experimentally. However, substantial divergence occurred for more dilute solutions and for basic pH conditions. It is speculated that under these conditions, atomic iodine may contribute substantially to the overall volatility; adding atomic iodine volatility to the model is found to greatly improve the agreement.