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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.
Manfred Wanner, Konrad Risse, and Thomas Rummel
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 391-398
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-712
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The superconducting coils of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator use a cable-in-conduit conductor that is wound as double layers. These double layers are connected by low-ohmic joints to limit ohmic heating. All joints were equipped with voltage taps to allow identification of the double layer causing a quench. During the current tests of the superconducting coils, the differences between adjacent voltage taps were measured, and the joint resistances between the double layers were estimated. The cryogenic tests of the 50 nonplanar and 20 planar coils provided a unique opportunity to analyze the variation of the resistance of 250 joints of the nonplanar coils and of 40 joints of the planar coils. The statistical analysis shows that the resistance of most of the joints was well below the specified value of 1 nΩ.