Investigations of238U captures to total fissions in a westinghouse SVEA-96+ assembly

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-95

  Bergmann, U C ^a,c   Grimm, P ^a   Jatuff, F ^a   Murphy, M F ^a   Chawla, R ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; FISSION PRODUCTS; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTION RATES; REACTOR CORES; URANIUM;

EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FUEL ASSEMBLY; GAMMA-RAY EMISSIONS; NEUTRON CAPTURES;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 34248176347     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE07-A2687     Document Type: Article

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