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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.
Yassin A. Hassan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | June 1985 | Pages 388-392
Technical Note | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33620
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Comparisons of the predictions of the best-estimate pressurized water reactor TRAC-PF1/MOD1 computer code to data of the General Electric level swell tests were performed. Various time-step sizes and nodalization schemes were employed. With appropriate time-step size, void fraction distributions predicted by TRAC compared favorably with the void fractions inferred from the measured data. Nonphysical oscillations in spatial void profiles were observed when a large time step was used. Comparisons of TRAC predictions with results obtained using three codes of the RELAP family were performed.