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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.
Hans S. Häggblom
Nuclear Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | May 1985 | Pages 170-177
Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33628
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Included in a project on a filtered and vented system for mitigating reactor meltdown accident consequences, FILTRA, a computational model, was developed for the investigation of iodine adsorption and desorption in a granular bed. The model considers physical adsorption, chemisorption, and desorption of free molecules carried by a gas through the bed. The calculational results show good agreement with experiments. A simplified version of the model has been used for calculating condensation and vaporization of volatile fission products in the primary circuit. The radioactive decay was ignored.