The concept of localization of the corium melt in the ex-vessel stage of a severe accident at a nuclear power station with a VVER-1000 reactor

Thermal Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 699-706

  Kukhtevich, I V ^a   Bezlepkin, V V ^a   Granovskii, V S ^b   Khabenskii, V B ^b   Asmolov, V G ^c   Beshta, S V ^b   Sidorov, A S ^d   Berkovich, V M ^e   Strizhov, V F ^f   Minchan, Khua ^d   Rogov, M F ^d   Novak, V P ^d  

^a St Petersburg Scientific and Engineering Center Association   (Russian Federation)

^b Sci Res and Technol Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d OAO Rosenergoatom Concern   (Russian Federation)

^e AtomEnergoproekt Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^f NUCLEAR SAFETY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0040152105     PISSN: 00406015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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