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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.
K. Shure
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1966 | Pages 106-115
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27489
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A radiation damage model that accounts for neutron spectral differences between irradiation locations has been applied to pertinent data on the change in ductile-to-brittle transition temperature for A302B pressure vessel steel. The resulting correlation supports the contention that such a damage model provides a physically more meaningful measure of exposure than the usually cited neutron flux above 1 MeV. A physically reasonable estimate of the functional dependence of this correlation has been fitted by a least-squares method to these data, and a technique for assigning one-sided tolerance limits is described.