Noble gas binary mixtures for gas-cooled reactor power plants

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1353-1372

  El Genk, Mohamed S ^a   Tournier, Jean Michel ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; INERT GASES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

HEAT EXCHANGE COMPONENTS DESIGN; PUMPING POWER; REACTOR COOLANTS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 42249110725     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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