Radiation tolerance of components and materials in nuclear robot applications

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 53, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 291-299

  Sharp, Richard ^a   Decréton, Marc ^b  

^a RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; RADIATION EFFECTS; RELIABILITY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SAFETY FACTOR;

NUCLEAR ROBOT APPLICATIONS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; REMOTELY CONTROLLED MANIPULATORS;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0030235110     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00054-3     Document Type: Article

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