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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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.
Song Yu, Zhao Jiaqing, Zhang Yiyang, Wu Xinxin (Tsinghua Univ)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 543-548
In this paper, the influence of four different entrances and exits to flow maldistribution in air-cooled heat exchangers is presented. The flow and heat transfer are computed by the numerical solution of the governing partial differential equations including the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy. The flow maldistribution of each heat transfer tubes of four different cases are analyzed, so as the heat transfer rate. The heat transfer rate average deviation is much smaller than flow average deviation. Slight differences of total heat transfer rate are found for different cases. The reason of this phenomenon is related to the relationship between flow and heat transfer rate and the heat resistance distribution. The flow pattern in different tubes and the resistance performance of different cases are compared.
