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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.
C. M. Walter, P. G. Shewmon, J. P. Bacca
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 1 | May 1971 | Pages 38-44
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30900
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A metallic fuel-element modeling code (BEMOD) has been developed to describe the irradiation behavior of EBR-II driver fuels. BEMOD has been applied to both the present Mark LA and the advanced Mark II driver fuels. Good agreement on cladding diameter changes as a function of burnup is obtained between calculations and measurements on irradiated fuel elements. At a reactor power of 50 MW(th), the code calculations indicate that the Mark IA element is capable of about 3.5 at.% before a cladding ΔD/D of 2% is expected, while the Mark II design should be capable of about twice that burnup before a similar cladding ΔD/D is attained. The increase in reactor power to 62.5 MW(th) appears to have no appreciable effect on the above values.