PARIS project: Radiolytic oxidation of molecular iodine in containment during a nuclear reactor severe accident. Part 1. Formation and destruction of air radiolysis products-Experimental results and modelling

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3542-3550

  Bosland, L ^a   Funke, F ^b   Girault, N ^a   Langrock, G ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b AREVA NP GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAINMENT VESSELS; CONTROL RODS; DISSOCIATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FISSION PRODUCTS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HYDROGEN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; IODINE COMPOUNDS; KINETIC THEORY; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OXYGEN; OZONE; PETROLEUM TAR; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; SILVER; STAINLESS STEEL;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; CONCENTRATION INCREASES; DIFFERENT KINETIC MODELS; DOSE RATES; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURES; EMPIRICAL MODELS; HIGH DOSES; HYDROGEN ADDITIONS; IODINE SPECIATIONS; IODINE TESTS; KINETIC CONSTANTS; KINETIC DATUM; KINETIC MODELS; LIGHT WATERS; LOW DOSES; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MODELLING; MOLECULAR IODINES; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; NUCLEAR; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; RADIATION FIELDS; RADIOLYSIS PRODUCTS; REACTOR CONTAINMENTS; REASONABLE AGREEMENTS; SATURATION LEVELS; SEVERE ACCIDENTS; STRUCTURAL CONTAINMENTS;

RADIOLYSIS;

EID: 55049120477     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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