New approach for assessing the required tritium breeding ratio and startup inventory in future fusion reactors

Fusion Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-353

  Kuan, William ^a   Abdou, Mohamed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR STARTUP; TRITIUM;

TRITIUM BREEDING RATIO (TBR);

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0032647333     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST99-A84     Document Type: Article

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