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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.
Byung S. Lee, William A. Jester, Joseph M. Olynyk
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 63-70
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34626
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An on-line radioiodine monitoring system designed to operate under nuclear accident conditions is tested at the hot cell laboratory of a radiopharmaceutical production facility. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate that the patented Pennsylvania State University radioiodine monitor, using stabilized NaI(Tl + 241Am) detectors, can generate information about concentration of airborne radioiodine in real time. In the test of continuous iodine monitoring, the real-time 132I activities agree with those obtained by a high-purity germanium detector within a factor of ∼4. From the simultaneous operation of two monitors, one at the inlet and one at the outlet of the hot cell filter bank, the hot cell filter bank efficiency for the removal of airborne radioiodine is estimated to be at least 99.88%.