Conceptual design of a 1400 MWe supercritical water cooled reactor core with a cruciform type U/Zr solid moderator

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 2806-2812

  Bae, Kang Mok ^a   Joo, Hyung Kook ^a   Bae, Yoon Yeong ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; LAND USE; MODERATORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); REACTOR CORES; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

BURNABLE POISONS; COOLANT TEMPERATURES; DESIGN MODIFICATIONS; EXCESS REACTIVITY; FLOW RATE CONTROL; FUEL RODS; FUEL TEMPERATURES; INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; MAXIMUM POWER; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; ROD DESIGNS; SUPERCRITICAL WATER COOLED REACTOR; ZERO POWER;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 52249123877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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