A deep burn fuel management strategy for the incineration of military plutonium in the gas turbine-modular helium reactor modeled in a detailed three-dimensional geometry by the Monte Carlo continuous energy burnup code

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-183

  Talamo, Alberto ^a   Gudowski, Waclaw ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); CODES (STANDARDS); COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAS TURBINES; HELIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DEEP BURN FUEL MANAGEMENT; ENERGY BURNUP CODES; FUEL CLADDING; MILITARY PLUTONIUM;

FUEL CONSUMPTION;

EID: 33745530266     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE06-A2603     Document Type: Article

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