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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.
J. Greenborg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 5 | October 1966 | Pages 430-439
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27621
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Extensive neutron and gamma-ray measurements were performed in the reflector and primary shield of the NPR, a large power and plutonium production reactor. The measurements yielded fast, epithermal, and thermal-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose distributions through approximately 9 ft of reflector and shield assembly. Emphasis was placed on obtaining absolute flux and dose measurements with respect to reactor power. The measured fluxes and dose rates were compared to those calculated by the removal diffusion theory computer program MAC; a calculation in 18 removal groups and 31 diffusion groups. Agreement is excellent for fast-neutron flux and gamma-ray dose rate in the concrete shield and for thermal and epithermal flux in the graphite reflector. Calculations of thermal and epithermal fluxes in the concrete shield are in lesser agreement with measured values; generally within a factor of 2.