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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.
Noboru Kobayashi, Susumu Hatta, Ichiro Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 936-940
Fuel Cycle and Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963059
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By using the two-dimensional rigorous numerical solution of flow and convection-diffusion equations, the H2-HT separative performances of 77 K “cryogenic-wall” thermal diffusion columns with 1,500 mm-fixed height and various radii of 1277 K hot and cold walls with feed rate being parametrically changed. Analyses revealed that the smaller radii columns are useful when feed flow rate is small while larger radii columns are useful when feed rate is large.
