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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.
R. L. Stephenson, R. W. Swindeman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 6 | December 1969 | Pages 572-575
Radioisotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28376
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An analytical model has been developed for using conventional creep data, taken at constant temperature and load, to predict failure times under conditions where stress and temperature vary according to simple, monotonic junctions of time. The validity of this method was examined experimentally for T-111 (Ta-8% W-2% Hƒ) and the experimental data are in good agreement with the predictions.