A summary of findings from the melt coolability and concrete interaction (MCCI) program

Societe Francaise d'Energie Nucleaire - International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants - ICAPP 2007, "The Nuclear Renaissance at Work"

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 2978-2990

  Farmer, M T ^a   Lomperski, S ^a   Kilsdonk, D ^a   Aeschlimann, R W ^a   Basu, S ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CURING; DEBRIS; DRYING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR CORES; TESTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY; COOLABILITY; DEBRIS COOLABILITY; DEBRIS COOLING; INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; KEY ELEMENTS; MOLTEN CORE; NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE; REACTOR MATERIALS; SEPARATE EFFECTS; SEVERE ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES; TEST RESULTS; WET AND DRY;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 52249103269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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