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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.
Dušan Babala and Rudolf Ogrin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 1967 | Pages 367-372
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17283
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The prompt neutron decay constant of the NORA reactor for a number of subcritical states has been determined by means of count-interval distribution measurements. The theoretical model agrees well with the experimental results. The technique has been compared with the Feynman and Mogilner methods. With the count-interval distribution technique, a better accuracy of the results has been achieved in a shorter time of measurement, as expected from the theory.