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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.
H. E. McCoy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 6 | December 1966 | Pages 481-485
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27541
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An analytical model has been developed for using creep data at a constant stress to predict creep behavior under a linearly increasing stress. The applicability of this technique to several refractory alloys has been demonstrated by comparing predicted and observed behavior. It was found that the model does not apply equally well to all materials and that it is necessary to perform limited tests to demonstrate its applicability to a given material.