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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.
A. Smaardyk, C. J. Divona, E. Hutter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 139-159
Technical Paper and Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30922
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The Instrumented Subassembly System supplies the means of measuring operating parameters of specimen fuels, instruments, and related components in the EBR-II core. The system consists of an instrumented subassembly, an extension tube with seals and connections for the instrument lead wires, a drive to make it compatible with fuel handling operations, and recording and data logging equipment. The instrumented subassembly is located in the fifth row of the core (replacing a control rod), is cooled by flowing sodium of 700 to 900°F, and is exposed to a total flux of ∼ 1.9 × 1015 n/(cm2 sec) at 50-MW reactor power. A prototype subassembly, containing 23 instruments was successfully tested in the reactor for 140 days (3856 MWd).