Long-life cores with small burnup reactivity swing

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2000 - ANS International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics and Mathematics and Computation into the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Greenspan, E ^a   Shimada, H ^a   Wang, K ^a  

^a Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD METALLURGY; RADIATION DAMAGE;

BURN UP; BURNUP REACTIVITY SWING; CORE DESIGN; DESIGN DOMAINS; EFFECTIVE FULL POWER YEARS; HEAT RATE; LONG-LIFE CORE; NEUTRONICS;

FUELS;

EID: 84885297904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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