AP1000 best estimate large break loca analysis performed with the westinghouse automated statistical treatment of uncertainty methop (astrum)

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 3450-3459

  Frepoll, Cesare ^a   Antoine, Stéphanie Y ^a   Xiaoping, Li ^b   Kemper, Robert M ^a   Ohkawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Oriani, Luca ^c  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b Nuclear Power Qinshan Joint Venture Company

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PASSIVE PLANT; COMPUTER CODES; LOCAL MAXIMUM OXIDATION (LMO); THERMAL POWER;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 34249103353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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