Behaviour of fission products under severe PWR accident conditions: The VERCORS experimental programme - Part 2: Release and transport of fission gases and volatile fission products

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1853-1866

  Pontillon, Yves ^a   Ducros, Gérard ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ACTINIDES; ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; FISSION PRODUCTS; GASES; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACCIDENT CONDITIONS; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; GLOBAL RELEASE; HIGH ACTIVITY; IRRADIATED FUELS; KNOWLEDGE DATABASE; SEVERE ACCIDENT; VOLATILE FISSION PRODUCTS;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 77955305869     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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