Boiling water reactor fuel behavior under reactivity-initiated-accident conditions at burnup of 41 to 45 GWd/tonne U

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-151

  Nakamura, Takehiko ^a   Yoshinaga, Makio ^a   Takahashi, Masato ^b   Okonogi, Kazunari ^b   Ishijima, Kiyomi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; DUCTILITY; ENTHALPY; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); REACTOR STARTUP; TRANSIENTS;

BOILING WATER REACTOR FUEL; BURNUP; COLD STARTUP REACTIVITY INITIATED ACCIDENT; PELLET CLADDING; PULSE IRRADIATED; THERMAL ENERGY;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 0034140407     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT00-A3053     Document Type: Article

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