Fuel with advanced burnable absorbers design for the IRIS reactor core: Combined Erbia and IFBA

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1201-1207

  Franceschini, Fausto ^a   Petrović, Bojan ^b  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1000 MW; AVAILABLE FUELS; BORON CONCENTRATIONS; BURNABLE ABSORBER; CORE DESIGN; CYCLE LENGTH; FUEL ASSEMBLY; FUEL CYCLE COSTS; FUEL DESIGN; FUEL MANAGEMENT; FUEL TECHNOLOGY; FUEL UTILIZATION; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; PLANT SAFETY; PRIMARY SYSTEMS; RESONANT BEHAVIOR; THERMALIZATION; TRANSIENT OPERATION; VOLUME RATIO; WESTINGHOUSE;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MODERATORS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; STANDARDS;

DESIGN;

EID: 67651154135     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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