Large-scale experiments on ex-vessel core melt behavior

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 363-370

  Sappok, Manfred ^a   Steinwarz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Siempelkamp Nuklear U   (Germany)

Author keywords

Core catcher; Core melt; Spreading

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTOR CORES;

CORE MELT; CORIUM RETENTION SYSTEMS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0033101966     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT99-A2953     Document Type: Article

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