Preliminary analysis of Phebus FPT3 experiment with the severe accident ICARE2 code

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  De Luze, Olivier ^a   Repetto, Georges ^a   Seiler, Nathalie ^a   Dominguez, Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIALS; INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS; PHEBUS FISSION PRODUCT (FP) PROGRAM;

BOILING WATER REACTORS; BORON CARBIDE; CODES (STANDARDS); NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; OXIDATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

FISSION PRODUCTS;

EID: 33845790991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE14-89191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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