Behaviour of fission products under severe PWR accident conditions VERCORS experimental programme - Part 1: General description of the programme

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1843-1852

  Pontillon, Yves ^a   Ducros, Gérard ^a   Malgouyres, P P ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ACTINIDES; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FISSION PRODUCTS; FUELS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

ACCIDENT CONDITIONS; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; IRRADIATED FUELS; OXYGEN POTENTIAL; PARTICULAR CONDITION; PRODUCT RELEASE;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 77955309738     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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