Calculation of the neutron noise induced by shell-mode core-barrel vibrations in a 1-D, two-group, two-region slab reactor model

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-141

  Sunde, Carl ^a   Demazière, Christophe ^a   Pázsit, Imre ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Core barrel vibrations; In core neutron noise; Shell mode vibrations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CORE-BARREL VIBRATIONS; IN-CORE NEUTRON NOISE; NEUTRON NOISE; SHELL-MODE VIBRATIONS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 33646554235     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT06-1     Document Type: Article

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