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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.
Yoichiro Shimazu, Yuzo Nakano, Yoshihisa Tahara, Tadayoshi Okayama
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | June 1987 | Pages 247-254
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33964
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Reactor physics tests at initial startup and after refuelings are performed to verify the nuclear design and to assure safe operation. Analog computers and instruments are widely used for the acquisition of data, and these data are reduced by hand. These conventional procedures, however, require much time and labor. Since there has been great progress in the development of digital computers and devices, these procedures are digitalized, which successfully reduces the time and labor required for reactor physics tests.