Advanced treatment of zircaloy cladding high-temperature oxidation in severe accident code calculations PART II. Best-fitted parabolic correlations

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-96

  Volchek, A ^a   Zvonarev, Yu ^a   Schanz, G ^b  

^a NUCLEAR SAFETY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROGEN; ISOTHERMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; OXIDATION; REACTION KINETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATE EQUATIONS; SEVERE ACCIDENT (SA) CODES; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 3242660013     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2004.02.014     Document Type: Article

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