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Gas-cooled fast reactors

Weaver, 2011

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10215795021448284470
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Weaver K
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Fast Spectrum Reactors

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The gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR) represents an alternative to the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) described throughout this book or the lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) described in Chapter 18. Although many parts of the book are relevant to all fast reactors (eg, neutronic …
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