Decay heat removal from a GFR core by natural convection

Proceedings of the 2004 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 624-636

  Williams, Wesley C ^a   Hejzlar, Pavel ^a   Driscoll, Michael J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; GAS-COOLED FAST REACTORS (GFR); HEAT REMOVAL; POWER DENSITY;

BREEDER REACTORS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEAT FLUX; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER; LOSS OF COOLANT ACCIDENTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; REMOVAL; THERMOANALYSIS; VOLUME FRACTION;

GAS COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 10644296539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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