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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. N. Chung, P. S. Ayyaswamy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 603-610
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31869
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Heat removal rates from containment spray droplets following a loss-of-coolant accident in a nuclear reactor have been calculated by three different droplet models: the complete mixing model, the model with internal circulation, and the rigid sphere. Irrespective of the model, the thermalization time is found to increase with increasing droplet size. It is noticed that the thermalization times predicted by the complete mixing and nonmixing models either underestimate or overestimate the value provided by the internal circulation model. It is concluded that the effect of internal circulation cannot be ignored in estimating heat removal rates from spray droplets.