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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.
F. Norelli
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 212-215
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20414
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A useful simplification in the analysis of the motion of boiling coolant in a channel is slip hypothesis. Unfortunately, many complex empirical slip ratio correlations make the solution of two-phase flow problems quite difficult. A suitable fitting for all these correlations is proposed in this work, thus reducing the problem to one of elementary quadratures. A short analysis is performed about the steady-state initial condition concept, and a more correct definition of it in time-dependent initial value problems is suggested.