Lifetime and thermal-structural performance of various first wall concepts and implications of creep-fatigue for design and licensing

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 39-40, Issue , 1998, Pages 575-584

  Karditsas, Panayiotis J ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; FATIGUE TESTING; LIFE CYCLE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

HELIUM COOLED REACTORS;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0032157492     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(97)00162-2     Document Type: Article

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