Fissile fuel breeding with peaceful nuclear explosives

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 643-656

  Şahin, Sümer ^a   Yalçin, Şenay ^b   Yildiz, Kadir ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fissile fuel; Neutron physics; PACER concept

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; SALTS; STAINLESS STEEL; TRITIUM; URANIUM;

FISSILE FUELS;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 0042624745     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(03)00397-1     Document Type: Article

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