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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. A. Reuscher, T. R. Schmidt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 28 | Number 1 | January 1976 | Pages 57-67
Technical Paper | Fuels for Pulsed Reactor / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31538
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A new experimental technique has been developed for dynamically measuring the thermomechanical properties of fissile materials. The speed of sound, modulus of elasticity, and coefficient of thermal expansion as a function of temperature for uranium alloys can be determined using the heating conditions that exist in a fast pulsed reactor. The technique was developed to provide thermomechanical property data for pulse reactor fuels under actual use conditions.