Passive advanced light water reactor designs and the ALPHA program at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Kerntechnik

Volumn 63, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 39-46

  Yadigaroglu, G ^a   Dreier, J ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR REACTORS;

ADVANCED LIGHT WATER REACTOR; CONCRETE CONTAINMENT; CURRENT PHASE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; I-PHASE; PASSIVE DESIGN; PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE; PRESSURISED WATER REACTOR; REACTOR DESIGNS; SECOND PHASE;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

PASSIVE ADVANCED LIGHT WATER REACTOR;

EID: 0031998366     PISSN: 09323902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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