Next generation CANDU: Conceptual design for a short construction schedule

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1051-1057

  Hopwood, Jerry M ^a   Love, Ian J W ^a   Elgohary, Medhat ^a   Fairclough, Neville ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

AECL; CANDU; Constructability; Construction; Modularization; Module; Nuclear; Opti mized; Parallel; Schedule; Strategy

Indexed keywords

HEAVY LIFT CRANES; MODULARIZATION; PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION; REACTOR BUILDING;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCRETES; CRANES; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PREFABRICATED CONSTRUCTION; REACTOR CORES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WELDING;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0036393425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE10-22718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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