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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.
Xiang Meng, Zhongwei Yuan, Taihong Yan, Weifang Zheng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1101-1107
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2169041
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The traditional evaporation process has obvious disadvantages when treating uranyl nitrate with a uranium concentration less than 10 g/L, such as more ancillary equipment, high energy consumption, and high cost. By contrast, nanofiltration equipment has low integration, and multivalent cations can be rejected effectively by nanofiltration membranes. In this work, a spiral-wound DK1812 nanofiltration membrane with an area of 0.325 m2 was used to treat a uranium nitrate solution with a uranium concentration of 10 g/L. The uranium concentration in the permeate is 16.91 mg/L, which means that the uranium rejection rate is 99.83% and the permeate flux of the solution is 71.1 L/(m2·h) under the conditions of a feed temperature of 30°C, a tangential velocity of 30 cm/s, and a transmembrane pressure of 1.5 MPa.