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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.
Chung-Yi Wang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 3 | December 1980 | Pages 400-413
Technical Paper | Mechanics Applications to Fast Breeder Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32576
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The implicit continuous-fluid Eulerian containment code has been extended to treat the hydrodynamics of high-energy excursions that involve shock-wave propagation, large amplitude free-surface motion, and fluid cavitation. In the analysis, an implicit-time-integration scheme is used to solve the Eulerian hydrodynamic equations. Stress-continuity equations are employed to treat the free-surface boundary conditions. Also, a simple equation of state is developed to model a cavitated fluid. As a result, numerical computations can be carried out readily and accurately without using complementary mechanisms such as artificial viscosities, mesh regularization, and rezoning. For the purpose of illustrating the advantages of the formulation, code simulations of the U.K./Italy code validation experiments are made. Good agreement between the analytical and experimental results are shown. This indicates that analyses of high-energy excursions involving shock-wave propagation and fluid cavitation are successfully performed with a Eulerian hydrodynamics code.