Results of the QUENCH-L2, DISCO-L2, and COMET-L2 experiments performed within the LACOMERA project at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2017-2026

  Miassoedov, Alexei ^a   Alsmeyer, Hans ^a   Meyer, Leonhard ^a   Steinbrück, Martin ^a   Groudev, Pavlin ^b   Ivanov, Ivan ^c   Sdouz, Gert ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); CORE MELTDOWN; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; PRESSURE VESSELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SULFATE MINERALS; TESTING; THEOREM PROVING;

5TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME; CHEMICAL PROCESSING; CONCRETE CAVITY; COOLABILITY; CORE DEGRADATION; DECAY HEATING; DRY CONDITIONS; FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE (FZK); GERMANY; HIGH TEMPERATURE (HT); MELT EJECTION; MELT FORMATION; MEMBER COUNTRIES; REACTOR CAVITY; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SEVERE ACCIDENT (SA); TEST PHASE;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 48349086187     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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