Impact of newly-measured gadolinium cross sections on BWR fuel rod reaction rate distributions

International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2008, PHYSOR 08

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 266-272

  Jaruff, F ^a   Perret, G ^a   Murphy, M ^a   Grimm, P ^a   Seiler, R ^a   Chawla, R ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; NEUTRON SCATTERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; MODIFIED CONVERSION RATIO; NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS; PROTEUS REACTORS; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTOR PHYSICS; THERMAL CAPTURE CROSS SECTION;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 79953852873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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