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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.
Dean V. Power
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | December 1975 | Pages 680-691
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24341
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The coherency transfer function (CTF) is a method for summing seismograms from multiple nearly coherent sources by using a frequency domain transformation. Ground motion predictions for the nuclear explosive Rio Blanco experiment are calculated for peak vector amplitudes of acceleration, velocity, and displacement and are compared to the Rio Blanco data and the results of other prediction techniques. Predictions of amplitudes are higher than experimental results by a few percent for acceleration and displacement and by 20% for velocity. Data regression slopes are ∼12% greater than predicted values for acceleration but <5% greater for displacement and velocity. CTF predictions are found to agree with experimental results as good as or better than values predicted by other methods.