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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.
David F. Mclaughlin, Charles E. Sessions, John E. Marra
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 2 | August 1992 | Pages 242-251
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34694
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Corrosion studies are described in a molten calcium chloride environment sparged with chlorine gas at 850°C, both in the melt and in the gas phase above the salt, in support of efforts at Westinghouse Savannah River Company to develop more resistant materials of construction for molten salt processing of plutonium. Corrosion rates and electron microscope analyses are reported for Inconel alloys 601 and 617, tantalum, tungsten, magnesium oxide, and silicon nitride. Silicon nitride exhibited the greatest resistance, showing <0.1 mg/cm2·h loss in both melt and vapor. None of the metallic coupons withstood the chlorine vapor environment, although Inconel indicated resistance immersed in the melt if protected from chlorine gas.