Stability monitoring tests using a nuclear-coupled boiling channel model

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Ceceñas Falcón, Miguel ^a   Edwards, Robert M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; MONITORING; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLATIONS; REACTION KINETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WHITE NOISE;

BOILING CHANNELS; NUCLEAR COUPLED BOILING CHANNEL MODEL; POINT KINETICS; STABILITY MONITORING TEST;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0342785227     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT00-A3100     Document Type: Article

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