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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.
L. Väth, Erhard A. Fischer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 1 | October 1985 | Pages 246-257
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33724
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The fission gas behavior computer model LAKU has been used to analyze annealing experiments performed on thermal reactor fuel and the transient in-pile experiment CABRI All. The results of the calculations revealed some minor weaknesses of the code. Consequently, changes were made in the modeling of the grain boundary gas bubbles, the release of intergranular gas, and the gas behavior in molten fuel. These modeling changes are presented together with the results of the recent calculations.