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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. V. Parks, P. J. Maudlin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 38-53
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32752
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A recently proposed sensitivity technique called differential sensitivity theory is applied to the neu-tronic/thermal-hydraulic fast reactor safety code MELT-IIIB. This application centers on the develop ment and solution of the appropriate adjoint and sensitivity equations, resulting in an adjoint version of the MELT code called MELTADJ. Proper inte gration of the forward MELT solution with the corresponding adjoint MELTADJ solution formally yields sensitivity information for all input parameters. Two transients in the Fast Flux Test Facility were investigated by performing input parameter sensi tivity analyses. Sensitivities obtained via MELTADJ are compared with those from MELT recalculations using perturbed input. These investigations indicate sufficiently good agreement between differential sensitivity theory and recalculation to validate the development of MELTADJ.