On the stability of the point reactor kinetics equations

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1443-1449

  Theler, Germán G ^a,b   Bonetto, Fabián J ^b  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^b TECNA SA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBO STABILITY; INTRINSIC STABILITY; LYAPUNOV; NEUTRONICS; POINT REACTOR KINETICS; REACTIVITY FEEDBACK; REACTOR PHYSICS; SIMPLE MODEL; STABILITY DESIGN;

FEEDBACK; KINETIC THEORY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); REACTOR CORES;

STABILITY;

EID: 77950945984     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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