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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.
Xiang Meng, Zhongwei Yuan, Taihong Yan, Weifang Zheng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1101-1107
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2169041
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The traditional evaporation process has obvious disadvantages when treating uranyl nitrate with a uranium concentration less than 10 g/L, such as more ancillary equipment, high energy consumption, and high cost. By contrast, nanofiltration equipment has low integration, and multivalent cations can be rejected effectively by nanofiltration membranes. In this work, a spiral-wound DK1812 nanofiltration membrane with an area of 0.325 m2 was used to treat a uranium nitrate solution with a uranium concentration of 10 g/L. The uranium concentration in the permeate is 16.91 mg/L, which means that the uranium rejection rate is 99.83% and the permeate flux of the solution is 71.1 L/(m2·h) under the conditions of a feed temperature of 30°C, a tangential velocity of 30 cm/s, and a transmembrane pressure of 1.5 MPa.