The commissariat à l'énergie atomique spin program: Minor actinide fuel and target aspects

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-119

  Prunier, Claude ^a   Guérin, Yannick ^a   Faugère, Jean Luc ^a   Cocuaud, Nadine ^a   Adnet, Jean Marc ^b  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b DCC/DRDD/SEMP   (France)

Author keywords

Am and Np fuel and target; Americium and neptunium; Minor actinide transmutation

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; FAST REACTORS; NEPTUNIUM; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; SEPARATION; TARGETS;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS TRANSMUTATION;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 0031272795     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/nt97-a35420     Document Type: Article

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