Monitoring MTC using cold leg thermocouple and background neutron detector noise signals in a VVER-440 reactor during a whole fuel cycle

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 827-834

  Kiss, Sándor ^a   Lipcsei, Sándor ^a   Végh, János ^a  

^a KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Background detectors; Cold leg thermocouples; MTC estimation; VVER 440

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; THERMOCOUPLES;

COLD LEG; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; OPTIMAL EVALUATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; VVER-440;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 79751538986     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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