Use of thorium for transmutation of plutonium and minor actinides in PWRs

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-68

  Shwageraus, Eugene ^a   Hejzlar, Pavel ^a   Kazimi, Mujid S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinide transmutation; PWRs; Thorium fuels

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); THORIUM;

ACTINIDE TRANSMUTATION; THORIUM FUELS; TRANSURANIUM TRANSMUTATION;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 4043169119     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT04-A3514     Document Type: Article

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