Critical Facility for lattice physics experiments for the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor and the 500 MWe pressurized heavy water reactors

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 758-769

  Raina, V K ^a   Srivenkatesan, R ^a   Khatri, D C ^a   Lahiri, D K ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER GENERATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THORIUM;

BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE (BARC); CALCULATIONAL MODELS; LATTICE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS;

HEAVY WATER REACTORS;

EID: 33646445459     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.09.021     Document Type: Article

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