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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.
Michael Täschner, Claus Bunnenberg, Henry Camus, Yves Belot
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 976-981
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30532
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Although the process of tritium reemission from soils after HT or HTO deposition is principally understood, the prediction of initial values and time courses of reemission rates on the basis of readily available data is still insufficient, especially when high time resolutions are required. Theoretical and experimental investigations discussed here show that for a yet limited number of environmental conditions good model performance is reached. In the case of evaporation conditions the initial reemission rate after HT deposition can be coupled to the evaporation rate, when the tritium profile in soil is of exponential shape, characterized by a mean scaling length. After HTO deposition the ideal profile can be described by an error function with a scaling length about 1/3 of that of the HT case. Hence, the initial reemission rate is 3 times higher. Time courses can be modeled by a diffusion approach applying the same diffusion coefficient as for the deposition process.