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Sodium-cooled fast reactors

Author: Jean-Paul CRETTÉ

Publication date: July 10, 2005

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2. Key features

2.1 Physical characteristics of the heart

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2.1.1 Neutronic

The basic physics of nuclear reactors is described in the article Neutron Characteristics of Industrial Reactors [B 3 040] in the Nuclear Engineering textbook.

Here, we only describe the specific aspects of sodium-cooled fast reactor cores.

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