Thorium-based transmuter fuels for light water reactors

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-101

  Herring, J Stephen ^a   MacDonald, Philip E ^a   Weaver, Kevan D ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inert matrix fuels; Thorium fuels; Transmutation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; REACTOR CORES; THORIA; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

INERT MATRIX FUELS; THORIUM FUELS; TRANSMUTATION;

LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

EID: 4043079909     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT04-A3516     Document Type: Article

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