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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.
M. A. Wakat, S. F. Peterson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1973 | Pages 49-57
Technical Paper | Radioisotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31253
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An on-line radiochemical monitoring system was developed to provide control information for the pressurized cation exchange chromatography process used at Savannah River to recover kilogram quantities of transplutonium elements. The effluent from the ion exchange column is circulated past Nal, BF3, and Ge(Li) detectors located outside the primary shielding wall. The individual radioisotopes are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The system uses a PDP-9 computer with direct memory access for the pulse-height analysis of incoming data.