Regional stability estimation of natural circulation BWRs using SIRIUS-N facility

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-350

  Furuya, Masahiro ^a   Inada, Fumio ^a   Van der Hagen, Tim H J J ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BWR type reactors; Channel stability; Core wide stability; Density wave oscillations; Natural circulation; Regional stability; Stability; Void reactivity feedback

Indexed keywords

BWR TYPE REACTORS; CHANNEL STABILITY; CORE-WIDE STABILITY; DENSITY WAVE OSCILLATIONS; NATURAL CIRCULATION; REGIONAL STABILITY; VOID-REACTIVITY FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; HEAT CONDUCTION; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVES;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 20944438374     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.2005.9726400     Document Type: Article

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