In-vessel corium catcher of a nuclear reactor

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 237, Issue 15-17 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 1745-1751

  Dombrovskii, Leonid A ^a   Mineev, Vladimir N ^a   Vlasov, Anatolii S ^a   Zaichik, Leonid I ^a   Zeigarnik, Yuri A ^a   Nedorezov, Andrei B ^b   Sidorov, Aleksandr S ^b  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

^b Project and Design Branch of the Rosenergoatomproect   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR MATERIALS SAFEGUARDS; POROSITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

IN-VESSEL CORIUM CATCHER; REACTOR VESSELS;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 34547196276     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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