A scoping study of debris bed formation in the DEFOR test facility

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1653-1659

  Karbojian, A ^a   Ma, W M ^a   Kudinov, P ^a   Dinh, T N ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY OXIDE MIXTURES; COOLABILITY; CORIUM MELT; DEBRIS BED; DEBRIS FORMATION; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; E-TESTS; EFFECT OF WATER; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; SCOPING; SEVERE ACCIDENT; SUBCOOLING;

BINARY MIXTURES; CORE MELTDOWN; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING;

DEBRIS;

EID: 67650427188     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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