Core melt spreading on a reactor containment floor

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 405-468

  Dinh, T N ^a   Konovalikhin, M J ^a   Sehgal, B R ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAINMENT VESSELS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVITY;

MELT SPREADING PHENOMENOLOGY; MOLTEN CORIUM CONCRETE INTERACTIONS; REACTOR CONTAINMENT FLOOR;

CORE MELTDOWN;

EID: 0033666565     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-1970(00)00088-3     Document Type: Article

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