Single rod heat transfer tests to study the effects of crud deposition

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, G ^a   Byers, W A ^a   Karoutas, Z E ^a   Hochreiter, L E ^b   Young, M Y ^a   Jacko, R J ^a  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiling curves; Crud deposition; Dryout analysis

Indexed keywords

CORE POWER DISTRIBUTION; CRUD DEPOSITION; FUEL PIN CLAD SURFACES; SINGLE ROD HEAT TRANSFER TESTS;

AXIAL FLOW; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; THERMOCOUPLES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33845777049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE14-89261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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