Comparative study of a boron dilution scenario in VVER reactors

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1331-1339

  Ivanov, Kostadin N ^a   Grundmann, Ulrich ^b   Mittag, Siegfried ^b   Rohde, Ulrich ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); REACTOR CORES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

REACTIVITY INITIATED ACCIDENT; SOFTWARE PACKAGE DYN3D;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0033212675     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(99)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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