Safety analysis of a supercritical-pressure water-cooled fast reactor under supercritical pressure

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1218-1228

  Ikejiri, Satoshi ^a   Ishiwatari, Yuki ^a   Oka, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLANT DENSITY; DECAY HEAT; DOWNWARD FLOW; FAST SPECTRUM; FLOW REDISTRIBUTION; FUEL CHANNELS; INITIATING EVENTS; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; OUTLET TEMPERATURE; PARALLEL PATH; POINT KINETICS; POWER DENSITIES; REACTIVITY FEEDBACK; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SUPER LWR; SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURES; SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTORS; UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO; WATER SOURCE;

ACCIDENTS; COOLANTS; FAST REACTORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; TRANSIENTS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 77949265563     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.12.034     Document Type: Article

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