Overview

There are 2 active research reactors in Norway. Another 3 are shutdown, awaiting decommissioning. Proposals have been made to develop a thorium-fuelled reactor, using indigenous supplies.

The Halden reactor (20 MW) is situated 110 Km south-east of Oslo. The main activities there are associated with OECD co-operation involving the testing of fuel rod samples, which are subsequently returned to their country of origin. NRPA (see below) has recommended that the reactor be licenced for a further 10 years.

The JEEP II reactor at Kjeller (2 MW) is situated 25 Km north-east of Oslo, and is used for production of radio-isotopes for use in medicine and industry.

Both reactors are operated by the Intitutt for Energiteknikk (IFE), which also produces the fuel rods for the reactors and stores the spent fuel......

L/ILW
The KLDRA facility has been constructed at Himdalen and following the granting of an operational licence in April 1998, the first shipment of waste to the site took place on 17 March 1999. KLDRA is a disposal facility for short-lived wastes and a storage facility for long-lived Plutonium-contaminated waste....

HLW
A Uranium Reprocessing Pilot Plant was in operation at Halden between 1961 and 1968, and this is now decommissioned. Spent fuel and waste from the research reactor at Halden and wastes from the testing of fuel rods, is stored in a concrete bunker, following a short period in pools at the reactor. Other untreated waste is stored in tanks. Natural uranium fuel is dry-stored, whereas uranium oxide fuel is stored in pools below the floor of the bunker. Spent fuel at Kjeller is dry-stored in a similar bunker.....

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