Effect of core calculation accuracy on fuel cycle cost

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Yamamoto, Akio ^a  

^a Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FORECASTING; FUELS; SAFETY FACTOR; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CALCULATION RESULTS; DISCHARGE BURN-UP; ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; IN-CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; SAFETY PARAMETERS; SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0005664740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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