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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.
E. G. Brush
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 3 | June 1965 | Pages 246-251
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20509
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Fuel cladding materials have been corrosion tested under heat-transfer conditions to superheated steam. Each datum point obtained represented an integrated corrosion response over a temperature gradient along the length of an electrically heated test specimen. An analytical model is developed by which these data may be treated to yield corrosion behavior at a given specific temperature. Corrosion rate laws in superheated steam are examined, and particular emphasis is given to the transition from nonlinear to linear rate control. It is argued, in the case of Incoloy-800®, that the transition results in true steady-state linear control, thus allowing the model to be used to extrapolate the corrosion behavior of this alloy to long periods of time.