The physics of transmutation in critical or subcritical reactors;Physique de la transmutation en réacteur critique ou sous-critique

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 3, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 999-1012

  Salvatores, Massimo ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Neutron economy; Nuclear cross sections; Radioactive wastes; Radioactivity; Sub critical reactor; Transmutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038323328     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0705(02)01350-6     Document Type: Article

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