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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.
Bruce E. Schmitt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 26-29
Technical Paper | Third International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33660
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The computer code RETRAN-02 is being used to analyze operational transients at the Hanford N Reactor. Included in the scope of the transients is a loss of feedwater from two 430-MW(electric) turbines to the secondary cooling system. An actual loss of feedwater from one of the two turbines occurred prior to this analysis, and plant data obtained from this transient were used in the validation of the RETRAN computer model. These data are compared with the RETRAN-02 predictions.
