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Swiss nuclear power and the case for long-term operation
Designed for 40 years but built to last far longer, Switzerland’s nuclear power plants have all entered long-term operation. Yet age alone says little about safety or performance. Through continuous upgrades, strict regulatory oversight, and extensive aging management, the country’s reactors are being prepared for decades of continued operation, in line with international practice.
Kirill Fedorovich Raskach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 162 | Number 2 | June 2009 | Pages 158-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE162-158
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This paper deals with the well-known problem of calculating derivatives and perturbations of the multiplication factor and reaction rates by the Monte Carlo method. The central point of the problem is the fact that the fission source spatial distribution depends on the solution of the neutron transport equation. Thus, whatever perturbation of material or geometrical parameters happens, it will lead to a perturbation of the fission source spatial distribution. Ignoring this can cause significant errors. There have been proposed several techniques to consider the aforementioned fact. This paper presents another possible solution.