Accident analyses and passive measures reducing the consequences of a core-melt in CAPRA/CADRA reactor cores

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 202, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 311-324

  Maschek, W ^a   Struwe, D ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; COOLANTS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PLUTONIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RECRITICALITY RISKS;

REACTOR CORES;

EID: 0034475528     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00379-4     Document Type: Article

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