Fuel channel fitness-for-service

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP

Volumn 360, Issue , 1998, Pages 207-213

  Hopkins, J R ^a   Price, E G ^a   Holt, R A ^a,b   Wong, H W ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEUTERIUM; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HEAVY WATER; INSPECTION; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; PLANT MANAGEMENT; REACTOR CORES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FUEL CHANNELS; HEAVY WATER COOLANT; INTERNAL PRESSURE; LIFE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM; NEUTRON FLUXES;

PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS;

EID: 0031634943     PISSN: 0277027X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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