Application of minimum plutonium criteria at EOC to optimize the fuel loading pattern in VVER-1000 reactors

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-276

  Mohseni, Niloofar ^a   Boroushaki, Mehrdad ^a   Ghofrani, Mohammad B ^a   Raji, Mohammad H ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTIMIZATION; PLUTONIUM;

NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; OPTIMAL FUEL CORE LOADING; POWER PEAKING FACTOR;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 37849004373     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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