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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.
Chong Chiu, Neil E. Todreas, Warren M. Rohsenow
Nuclear Technology | Volume 50 | Number 1 | August 1980 | Pages 40-52
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A17068
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A flow split model for the turbulent flow in a wire-wrapped nuclear fuel rod assembly is developed taking the form drag and sweeping flow between subchannels into consideration. This model is applicable to the flow distribution between two types of subchannels, i.e., interior and edge subchannels. The constants in this model for each type of subchannel were determined using all experimental data in the literature and the results of two tests performed as part of this study to fill a gap in the available literature. These experiments to measure flow split were performed on two wire-wrapped 61 pin bundles of pin pitch-to-diameter ratio equal to 1.063 and wire lead to pin diameter ratios of 4 and 8. The predictions of this model match all experimental data in the literature within ±5%.