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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.
F. E. LeVert, E. Helminski
Nuclear Technology | Volume 19 | Number 1 | July 1973 | Pages 58-60
Technical Note | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31318
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A dual-energy photon attenuation technique provides a means of measuring void fractions in a flowing fluid. The mean void fraction determined by this method is in dependent of the fluid thickness. A comparison of the dual-energy method with the single-energy attenuation technique reveals that the assumption of a static refer ence void fraction in a dynamic voiding case is less severe with the dual-energy method.
