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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.
C. William Savery, Y. S. Huang, George M. Kowal
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 327-336
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24308
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A computer code, MNODE, for predicting the state histories and inventories of an inert gas and water liquid and vapor flowing in a zoned containment has been developed. It employs a model that describes the unsteady flow and thermodynamics of two-phase two-component mixtures flowing among 12 connected control volumes. This calculational model can be applied to problems of hypothetical high-pressure primary coolant, feed water, or steam line ruptures in such structures as nuclear containments, tunnels, or auxiliary buildings. In comparison with previously reported zoned containment computation models, this model rigorously treats the thermodynamics of two-phase two-component mixtures of water and an inert gas, is provided with several flow model options including an inertia flow equation, and is demonstrated with substantial verification. Predictions are compared with the results of an analytical gas dynamic problem, semiscale blowdown experiments, and solutions to a subcompartment analysis standard problem by other computer codes in use within the nuclear industry.