Core designs and economic analyses of homogeneous thoria-urania fuel in light water reactors

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-19

  Saglam, Mehmet ^a   Sapyta, Joe J ^a   Spetz, Stewart W ^a   Hassler, Lawrence A ^a  

^a AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Nuclear fuel cycle; Thorium

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUEL ECONOMY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTOR CORES; THORIA; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

EQUILIBRIUM FUEL CYCLE DESIGN; FUEL CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE;

LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

EID: 4043169120     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT03-29     Document Type: Article

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