Applying burnable poison particles to reduce the reactivity swing in high temperature reactors with batch-wise fuel loading

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 222, Issue 2-3 SPEC, 2003, Pages 105-115

  Kloosterman, J L ^a   Van Dam, H ^a   Van der Hagen, T H J J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NEUTRON ABSORPTION; URANIUM;

BURNABLE POISON PARTICLES (BPP);

HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS;

EID: 0037885024     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(03)00006-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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