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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.
Hilbert Christensen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 155 | Number 3 | September 2006 | Pages 358-364
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3768
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A previously developed radiolysis model has been used to simulate experiments from four laboratories. The source strengths in the experiments with UO2, doped with 238Pu, were 0.01, 0.1, and 1 Ci/g. The agreement was good with the experimental results of Stroes-Gascoyne et al. for their sample with 0.1 Ci/g. Their sample containing 0.01 Ci/g gave a factor-of-3-higher calculated corrosion rate compared with the experimental rate. In the experiments of Cobos et al. and of Kelm and Bohnert, using alpha-doped UO2, the calculated corrosion rates were somewhat lower than the experimental rates. However, recent experiments by Rondinella et al. using UO2 with 10% doped 233U gave considerably lower corrosion rates in good agreement with the model. The calculated corrosion rates for the same source strength were about the same for the experiments by Stroes-Gascoyne et al., Kelm and Bohnert, and Cobos et al. However, the experimental rates varied considerably. The agreement was not good with experiments using Pu(VI) dissolved in solution, in which case the calculated corrosion rate was ten times or more than ten times lower than the experimental rate. The reason for this disagreement could be a chemical effect of Pu(VI) in the solution.