Impact of new gadolinium cross sections on reaction rate distributions in 10×10 BWR assemblies

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-25

  Perret, G ^a   Murphy, M F ^a   Jatuff, F ^a,d   Sublet, J C ^b   Bouland, O ^b   Chawla, R ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Kernkraftwerk Goesgen Daeniken AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); REACTION RATES;

ENDF/B-VII.0; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FISSION RATES; INTEGRAL EXPERIMENTS; LWR-PROTEUS; MEASURED VALUES; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

GADOLINIUM;

EID: 70349625104     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE08-55     Document Type: Article

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