Importance of the MUSE experiments for emerging ADS concepts from the nuclear data viewpoint

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 843-856

  Plaschy, M ^a   Pelloni, S ^a   Coddington, P ^a   Rimpault, G ^b   Chawla, R ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FISSION REACTIONS; NEUTRONS; PLUTONIUM; PULSE GENERATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SODIUM;

EXPERIMENTAL ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN SYSTEMS (XADS); EXTERNAL NEUTRON SOURCE; NA-COOLED XADS; SPECTRAL INDEX;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 16344371246     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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