Investigation of bounds on particle packing in pebble-bed high temperature reactors

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 669-676

  Ougouag, Abderrafi M ^a   Kloosterman, Jan Leen ^b   Van Rooijen, Wilfred F G ^b   Gougar, Hans D ^a   Terry, William K ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FUEL PEBBLES; PACKING DENSITY; PEBBLE-BED REACTOR (PBR);

HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS;

EID: 33644901747     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.12.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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