Toward very high burnups, a strategy for plutonium utilization in pressurized water reactors

Journal of Nuclear Materials

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-159

  Porta, J ^a   Doriath, J Y ^a  

^a Division of DAPNIA SIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

NUCLEAR FUEL BURNUP;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 0032646161     PISSN: 00223115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3115(99)00084-7     Document Type: Article

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