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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.
W. N. Mcelroy, R. E. Dahl, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 6 | December 1969 | Pages 561-571
Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28375
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A method has been developed for generating damage functions for the correlation and prediction of neutron-induced property changes. The method affords a procedure for studying and determining the neutron spectral dependence of irradiation-effects data obtained in test reactors withh subsequent application of results to the establishment of more exact engineering design fluence limits for reactor components. The method has been applied to ductile-brittle transition temperature increase data obtained in different test-reactor spectra. Results show that neutrons of all energies must be included for best overall interpretation of the experimental irradiation effects data.