Neutronic analysis of PROMETHEUS reactor fueled with various compounds of thorium and uranium

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1871-1889

  Yapici, Hüseyin ^a   Übeyli, Mustafa ^b   Yalçin, Senay ^c  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; FISSION PRODUCTS; FUSION REACTIONS; HELIUM; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; RESONANCE; SILICON CARBIDE; THORIUM; URANIUM;

NEUTRONIC ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0036832934     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(02)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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