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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.
S. M. Sami, M. Kraitem
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 1 | October 1988 | Pages 81-92
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34177
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An improved digital computer model DYNAM/US has been developed for predicting thermally induced instability in a once-through boiling flow with superheat. The present model includes newly developed dynamic schemes to calculate subcooled boiling, transition boiling, bulk boiling, as well as superheat. Numerical results revealed that this digital model compared well with existing experimental data and was able to predict lower natural frequencies as well as the system frequency response at higher frequencies.