Hydrogen generation in reflooding experiments with LWR-type rod bundles (QUENCH program)

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-215

  Sepold, Leo K ^a   Miassoedov, Alexei ^a   Schanz, Gerhard ^a   Stegmaier, Ulrike ^a   Steinbrück, Martin ^a   Stuckert, Juri ^a   Homann, Christoph ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrogen source term; LWR accident research; Out of pile bundle experiments

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COOLING; HYDROGEN; MELTING; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR SIMULATORS; OXIDATION; QUENCHING; REACTOR CORES; ZIRCONIUM;

HYDROGEN SOURCE TERM; LIGHT WATER REACTORS ACCIDENT RESEARCH; MELT OXIDATION; QUENCH BUNDLE EXPERIMENTS;

LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

EID: 4444338864     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT04-A3526     Document Type: Article

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