Advanced vessel cooling system concept for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-96

  Saikusa, Akio ^a,b,c   Kunitomi, Kazuhiko ^a,c,d   Shiozawa, Shusaku ^a,c,e  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HTTR   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced vessel cooling system; HTGR

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COOLING SYSTEMS; CORE DISRUPTIVE ACCIDENTS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS;

DEPRESSURIZATION ACCIDENTS;

GAS COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 0031142606     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT97-A35370     Document Type: Article

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