Prediction of Fuel Performance and Fission Gas Release Behavior during Normal Operation of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor by JAERI and FZJ Modeling Approach

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 411-419

  Sawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Ueta, Shouhei ^a   Sumita, Junya ^a   Verfondern, Karl ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coated fuel particles; Fission product release; Fuel failure fraction; HTGR type reactors; Models; Nuclear fuels; Performance; Prediction

Indexed keywords

COATED FUEL PARTICLES; COOLANTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FISSION PRODUCTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL ACCOUNTING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOISOTOPES;

FISSION GASES; HIGH TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING TEST REACTOR;

GAS COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 0035358402     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2001.9715047     Document Type: Article

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