Lead-cooled, long-life fast reactor concepts for remote deployment

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 508-515

  Yang, W S ^a   Smith, M A ^a   Kim, S J ^a,b   Moisseytsev, A V ^a   Sienicki, J J ^a   Wade, D C ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; FUEL INVENTORY; LEAD COOLED FAST REACTOR (LFR); NEUTRONICS; SMALL SECURE TRANSPORTABLE AUTONOMOUS REACTOR (SSTAR);

CONTROL RODS; COOLANTS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR CORES;

FAST REACTORS;

EID: 34249057751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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