Behavior of high-burnup PWR fuels with low-tin Zircaloy-4 cladding under reactivity-initiated-accident conditions

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 50-62

  Fuketa, Toyoshi ^a   Sasajima, Hideo ^a   Sugiyama, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; ENTHALPY; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; TIN;

REACTIVITY-INITIATED-ACCIDENTS (RIA);

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0035130025     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT01-A3158     Document Type: Article

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