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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.
C. Plichon, R. Gueraud, M. H. Richli, J. F. Casagrande
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | July 1980 | Pages 295-306
Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32491
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The standardization of nuclear plants offers considerable advantages and results in particular in a reduction in deadlines and costs and in a concentration of the studies and testing facilities on a single type of equipment. In order that this standardization be even more beneficial, Electricité de France and Spie-Batignolles Company have developed the aseismic bearing foundation system based on the combination of elastomer and friction elements. This system permits the reconduction of a standardized nuclear plant in potentially higher seismic areas with an equivalent or even higher degree of safety. The implementation of this concept on actual nuclear power plants has necessitated a comprehensive analysis of technological and mathematical aspects during recent years.