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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. J. Ritts, M. Solomito, P. N. Stevens
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 2 | June 1971 | Pages 246-258
Technical Paper | Radiation | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30889
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Improved multicollision neutron fluence-to-dose conversion factors have been calculated for a phantom exposed to neutrons with energies from 15 MeV down to thermal. The phantom was a 30-cm-thick slab composed of the 11 most common elements in the standard man. The calculations consisted of the simultaneous solution of the neutron and secondary gamma-ray transport problem with the ANISN computer code for both a beam source and an isotropic flux source, and for a slab having both infinite and finite transverse dimensions. The fluence-to-dose conversion factors were based on new neutron fluence-to-kerma factors and improved secondary gamma-ray yields determined for the individual elements comprising the slab. The neutron and gamma-ray cross sections used in the calculations are from the ENDF/B file and the OGRE library, respectively.