A once for life core design for the Encapsulated Nuclear Heat Source (ENHS) reactor

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

  Hong, Ser Gi ^a   Greenspan, Ehud ^b   Kim, Young Gyun ^a   Kim, Yeong Il ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION PRODUCTS; REACTOR CORES;

BURNUP REACTIVITY SWING; ENCAPSULATED NUCLEAR HEAT SOURCE; NATURAL CIRCULATION; ONCE-FOR-LIFE CORES; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER OPERATION; REACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; REACTIVITY WORTH;

FUELS;

EID: 84907085339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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