Assessment of deep burnup concept based on graphite moderated gas-cooled thermal reactor

PHYSOR-2006 - American Nuclear Society's Topical Meeting on Reactor Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kim, T K ^a   Taiwo, T A ^a   Yang, W S ^a   Hill, R N ^a   Venneri, F ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

DB MHR; Deep burn; Transmutation; Transuranics

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; HELIUM; NUCLEAR FUELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REACTOR CORES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEEP BURN; GAS COOLED THERMAL REACTORS; GENERAL ATOMICS (GA); TRANSMUTATION; TRANSURANICS;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 33847230928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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