Pressurized water reactor fuel crud and corrosion modeling

JOM

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 64-72

  Deshon, Jeff ^a   Hussey, Dennis ^a   Kendrick, Brian ^b   McGurk, John ^c   Secker, Jeff ^d   Short, Michael ^e  

^a ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LIGHT WATER REACTOR; AXIAL OFFSET ANOMALIES; CORROSION MODELING; CORROSION PRODUCTS; ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE; FUEL PERFORMANCE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE WATER; INCONEL; LOCALIZED CORROSION; MICRO-SCALES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PRESSURIZED WATER; SOFTWARE TOOL; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WESTINGHOUSE; ZIRCONIUM-BASED ALLOY;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEATE BOILING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAINLESS STEEL; ZIRCONIUM;

FUELS;

EID: 80053019414     PISSN: 10474838     EISSN: 15431851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-011-0141-z     Document Type: Article

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