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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.
Lawrence Ruby, Robert V. Pyle, Yue-Chau Wong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 3 | September 1979 | Pages 280-286
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19064
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Cross sections have been measured for 6Li(6Li,5He)7Be and for 19F(6Li,p)24Na in the laboratory energy range from 3.0 to 15.0 MeV. Similar measurements have been made for 6Li(d,n)7Be in the laboratory energy range from 0.4 to 1.0 Me V. A theoretical analysis of the 6Li(6Li,5He)7Be reaction, using a distorted-wave-Born-approximation calculation, shows that this and other experiments are consistent with a proton-transfer model in a direct-reaction mode.
