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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. L. Dodds, Jr., P. F. Pasqua
Nuclear Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | March 1970 | Pages 296-301
Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28677
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The differential fast-neutron flux above 0.5 MeV at one spatial position in the High Flux Isotope Reactor was determined experimentally using several threshold activation detectors. The series expansion technique utilizing the concept of least squares was used to obtain an approximate solution to the set of integral equations which are defined by the experimentally determined activation data. Good agreement was achieved between the integrated flux (i.e., the differential flux integrated above 0.5 MeV) determined in this work and the integrated flux determined independently using one-dimensional, multigroup diffusion theory.