Design of a simulated void-reactivity feedback in a boiling water reactor loop

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Kok, H V ^a   Van Der Hagen, T H J J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FEEDBACK; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); STABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

NEUTRONICS; THERMAL HYDRAULIC LOOP; VOID FRACTION; VOID REACTIVITY FEEDBACK;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0033204076     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT99-A3009     Document Type: Article

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