Triggered steam explosion experiments in the TROI facility

Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society - International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2005, ICAPP'05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 223-231

  Kim, J H ^a   Park, I K ^a   Min, B T ^a   Hong, S W ^a   Kim, H Y ^a   Song, J H ^a   Kim, H D ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; DYNAMIC LOADS; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVES; STEAM; ZIRCONIA;

DYNAMIC PRESSURE; ENERGY CONVERSION RATIO; STEAM EXPLOSION TESTS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 34249004591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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