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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.
Seihiro Itoya, Masami Kato, Nobuaki Abe, Hideo Nagasaka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 1 | April 1987 | Pages 32-45
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33949
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Simulation tests of a boiling water reactor (BWR) loss-of -coolant accident (LOCA) caused by a double-ended guillotine break of a recirculation pump suction line were carried out with the rig of safety assessment III (ROSA-III) test facility at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. SAFER03 and TRAC-BD1 analyses with the ROSA-III test data have been performed to assess predictive capability for the large-break LOCA thermal-hydraulic response of a BWR. The analytical results indicate that SAFER03 and TRAC-BD1 predicted key phenomena very well. Furthermore, it was confirmed that SAFER03 predicted higher peak cladding surface temperature than the test data due to the conservative thermal-hydraulic model.