An innovative concept of a sodium-cooled reactor to pursue high economic competitiveness

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Shimakawa, Yoshio ^a   Kasai, Shigeo ^a   Konomura, Mamoru ^a   Toda, Mikio ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commercialized reactor; Fast reactor; Sodium cooled

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUSION REACTIONS; HYDRAULICS;

SODIUM-COOLED REACTORS;

LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0036773308     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT02-A3319     Document Type: Article

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