An experimental study on debris formation with corium simulant materials

International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1191-1199

  Kudinov, Pavel ^a   Karbojian, Aram ^a   Ma, Weimin ^a   Dinh, True Nam ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE MECHANISMS; DEBRIS BED; DEBRIS FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MELT COMPOSITIONS; SIMULANT MATERIALS; SUBCOOLINGS; WATER POOLS;

AGGLOMERATION; DEBRIS; EUTECTICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 70349971077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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