A review of nuclear fuel performance codes

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-141

  Aybar, Hikmet S ^a   Ortego, Pedro ^b  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SEA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuel performance; Nuclear fuel

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; NUCLEAR FUEL PELLETS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER GENERATION; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COMPUTER CODES; DECAY CONSTANT; FUEL PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS;

NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS;

EID: 17644404728     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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