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OECD Halden Reactor Project 1980 (1982)

AuthorNEA
Date1982
Classification 2.08.9.90/04 (NORWAY - FACILITIES)
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FOREWORD

This is the Twenty-first Annual Report on the OECD Halden Reactor Project, 
describing activities during 1980, the second year of the 1979- 1981 Halden 
Agreement. The Halden Project dates from July 1958, when the Boiling Heavy 
Water Reactor at Halden, south of Oslo, built and owned by the Norwegian Institutt 
for Atomenergi (now Institutt for Energiteknikk), became the subject of a Joint 
Undertaking under an Agreement signed by Austria, Denmark, Euratom 
(representing the six countries then comprising the European Economic 
Community), Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Project 
has since continued under a series of further Agreements. Signatories to the 1979-
1981 Agreement - besides Norway - are Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Federal 
Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom 
and the United States. Three private organisations participate as associated parties.

In the thirty-two years since its inception, the Halden Reactor has evolved from an 
initial goal of demonstrating the heavy water moderated reactor concept through a 
modest, first-few thermocouple and flow turbine tests and thence through a 
protracted series of complex apparatus and technique innovations to become one 
of the most versatile nuclear test reactors in the world. Over the course of this 
development, some 240 in-pile experiments have been performed. These ranged 
in complexity from rudimentary, noninstrumented rod bundles to some of the most 
integrated and complex in-reactor tests ever designed.

Computerized data handling capability, developed to accommodate proliferating fuel 
test data, served as the nucleus for a second major Halden Project research function ; 
namely, computerized reactor process control development. This area now represents 
roughly one third of the Halden research programme and is served by a staff of 
scientists and engineers with extensive experience in the field of computer-based 
control and monitoring of the operational aspects of nuclear power plants.

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