A qualitative assessment of thorium-based fuels in supercritical pressure water cooled reactors

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2002 - International Conference on the New Frontiers of Nuclear Technology : Reactor Physics, Safety and High-Performance Computing - The ANS 2002 RPD Topical Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Weaver, Kevan D ^a   MacDonald, Philip E ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; CONSERVATION; COOLING WATER; FLOW OF WATER; FUELS; ISOTOPES; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; PLUTONIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

GENERATION IV REACTORS; PROLIFERATION RESISTANCE; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE WATER-COOLED REACTORS; THORIUM BASED FUELS; TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS; URANIUM BASED FUEL; WASTE MINIMIZATION;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 84862858166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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