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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.
Richard A. Riemke
Nuclear Technology | Volume 102 | Number 3 | June 1993 | Pages 416-417
Technical Note | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A17039
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Unal’s subcooled flow boiling bubble model is being used in the best-estimate light water reactor code RELAP5/MOD3. There is a significant discontinuity (by a factor of 2) in the condensation heat transfer coefficient from this model at 1 MPa, which can cause numerical problems in the code. The correlation has been modified (with the approval of Unal) to remove the discontinuity at 1 MPa and to replace it with a form that is continuous to three significant places at 1.1272 MPa.