A method to avoid spatial treatment in xenon poisoning calculation while providing conservative reactivity estimates

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 373-385

  Toshinsky, Vladimir G ^a   Sekimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Toshinsky, George I ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND POWER ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INDUSTRIAL POISONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR);

NEUTRON FLUX;

XENON;

EID: 0033102249     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(98)00057-7     Document Type: Article

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