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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.
Jorge Arpa, Jose Ramos, Juan R. Villar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 3 | December 1988 | Pages 334-343
Technical Paper | Fifth International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34146
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Three applications of the RETRAN code at Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to enhance plant operational margin and support training simulators are presented. Two of the applications are intended to increase plant availability, one by reducing the frequency of unnecessary reactor trips on turbine trips during power ascension and the other by providing a simple relationship between electrical frequency and reactor coolant flow. This relationship is then used in selecting electrical load-shedding schemes. The third application is in the area of training simulators, where special RETRAN best-estimate analyses have been used as part of the acceptance testing program for the FPL simulators.