Very-high-temperature gas-cooled reactors: Progress and challenges

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 748-758

  No, Hee Cheon ^a   Oh, Chang H ^b   Kim, Jong H ^a   Park, Goon Cherl ^c   Lee, John C ^d   Martin, William R ^d   Lim, Hong Sik ^a   Kim, Eung Soo ^a   Kim, M O ^c   Conlin, Jeremy L ^d   Ji, Wei ^d  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION CAPABILITY; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; PROLIFERATION-RESISTANT FUEL CYCLE;

GAS COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 34249100545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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