Spent mixed oxide fuel rejuvenation in fusion breeders

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-23

  Şahin, Sümer ^a   Yapici, Hüseyin ^b   Bayrak, Mustafa ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cumulative fissile fuel enrichment; Fusion breeders; Mixed oxide fuel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002170547     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(99)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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