Optimization of a fuel assembly for a HPLWR

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 349-356

  Hofmeister, Jan ^a   Schulenberg, Thomas ^b   Starflinger, Joerg ^b  

^a RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MODERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTOR CORES; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

FUEL ASSEMBLY DESIGN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIGHT WATER REACTOR (HPLWR); SUPERCRITICAL WATER;

NUCLEAR FUEL ACCOUNTING;

EID: 34249056508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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