Lessons learnt from FARO/TERMOS corium melt quenching experiments

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 223-238

  Magallon, D ^a   Huhtiniemi, I ^a   Hohmann, H ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CONTAINMENT VESSELS; HYDROGEN; MIXING; OXIDATION; QUENCHING; URANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

CORIUM MELT; TERMOS VESSEL;

CORE MELTDOWN;

EID: 0032654903     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(98)00274-X     Document Type: Article

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