Development of kinetics model for bwr core simulator aetna

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 201-212

  Tamitani, Masashi ^a   Iwamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Moore, Brian R ^b  

^a Global Nuclear Fuel Japan Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b Global Nuclear Fuel Americas   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic polynomial; BWR type reactors; Diffusion calculation; Few group; Frequency transform method; Light water reactor; Reactor cores; Simulators; Spatial neutron kinetics

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CODES (STANDARDS); DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; POLYNOMIALS; REACTOR CORES; SIMULATORS;

ADIABATIC KINETICS MODEL; FREQUENCY TRANSFORM METHOD; POLYNOMIAL NODAL DIFFUSION; POWER DENSITY;

WATER COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 0038538265     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2003.9715350     Document Type: Article

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