Analysis of the VVER1000 coolant trip benchmark using the coupled RELAP5/PARCS code

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 806-819

  Bousbia Salah, Anis ^a   Vedovi, Juswald ^a   D'Auria, Francesco ^a   Galassi, Giorgio ^a   Ivanov, Kostadin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled code calculations; RELAP5 PARCS; VVER1000 Benchmark

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR CORES; TRANSIENTS;

COUPLED CODE CALCULATIONS; MAIN COOLANT PUMP (MCP); RELAP5/PARCS; VVER1000 BENCHMARKS;

COOLANTS;

EID: 33751169973     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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