PLUTON: A three-group model for the radial distribution of plutonium, burnup, and power profiles in highly irradiated LWR fuel rods

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-168

  Lemehov, Sergei ^a   Nakamura, Jinichi ^a   Suzuki, Motoe ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; HEAVY WATER REACTORS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; NEUTRON ABSORPTION; PLUTONIUM;

NUCLEAR FUEL RODS; POWER DENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

NUCLEAR FUEL PELLETS;

EID: 0035251570     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT01-A3166     Document Type: Article

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