Reprocessing Technologies of the High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) Fuel

Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 546-554

  Sumita, Junya ^a   Ueta, Shohei ^b   Kunitomi, Kazuhiko ^b   Yoshimuta, Shigeharu ^b   Sawa, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Nuc Fuel Ind Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

coated fuel particle; head end process; HTGR; HTGR fuel; HTTR; purex method; reprocessing; TRISO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984792235     PISSN: 13472879     EISSN: 21862931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/taesj2002.2.546     Document Type: Article

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