High energy X-ray CT study on the central void formations and the fuel pin deformations of FBR fuel assemblies

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 365-372

  Katsuyama, Kozo ^a   Nagamine, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Shin ichiro ^a   Sato, Seichi ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FBR; MOX fuel; Post irradiation examination; X ray computer tomography

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); FUELS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CERAMOGRAPHY; FBR; MOX FUEL; POST-IRRADIATION EXAMINATION; X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847249974     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.12.087     Document Type: Article

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