Fission rate distribution at the 84-pin radial section of a SVEA-96 optima2 BWR assembly

International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2008, PHYSOR 08

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2715-2720

  Perret, Grégory ^a   Murphy, Michael F ^a   Jatuff, Fabian ^a   Chawla, Rakesh ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIBRARIES; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; OXIDE MINERALS; URANIUM DIOXIDE;

DATA LIBRARY; ENDF/B-VI; FISSION RATES; JEFF-3.1; LWR-PROTEUS; PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE; THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS; WESTINGHOUSE;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 79953890445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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