Potential of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor using uranium for various coolants to breed fissile fuel for LWRs

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 821-832

  Yapic, Hüseyin ^a   Çürüttu, Ilyas ^b   Özceyhan, Veysel ^c   Kirbiyik, Mehmet ^d  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COOLANTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; URANIUM;

CUMULATIVE FISSILE FUEL ENRICHMENT (CFFE) VALUES; TRITIUM BREEDING RATIO (TBR);

BREEDING BLANKETS;

EID: 0033149883     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(98)00093-0     Document Type: Article

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