Study of thorium advanced fuel cycle utilization in light water reactor VVER-440

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 685-690

  Breza, Juraj ^a,b   Dařílek, Petr ^a   Nečas, Vladimír ^b  

^a VUJE INC   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED FUEL CYCLE; BENCHMARK COMPARISON; FUEL CYCLE; LIGHT WATER; MATRIX; MINOR ACTINIDE; NUCLEAR DATA; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES; OPEN CYCLES; THORIUM BASED FUELS; THORIUM FUELS; VVER-440 REACTORS;

ACTINIDES; FUELS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 77950300832     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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