Experiments with the circus facility on flashing-induced instabilities during start-up of natural-circulation-cooled BWRS

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Manera, A ^a   de Kruijf, W J M ^a   van der Hagen, T H J J ^a   Mudde, R F ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Kramers Lab V Fysische Technologie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL CONVECTION;

HEATING POWER; LOW POWER; LOW PRESSURES; NATURAL CIRCULATION; NONLINEAR OSCILLATION; STABILITY MEASUREMENTS; STEAM/WATER;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0037979986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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