Neutronic performance of proliferation hardened thorium fusion breeders

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-77

  Sahin, Sümer ^a   Yapici, Hüseyin ^b   Sahin, Necmettin ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COOLANTS; EUTECTICS; HELIUM; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR FUELS; THORIUM;

DENATURATED FISSILE FUELS;

BREEDER REACTORS;

EID: 0035252623     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(00)00107-1     Document Type: Article

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