Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 193594, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/193594
Research Article

Assessment of LWR-HTR-GCFR Integrated Cycle

Eleonora Bomboni,1 Nicola Cerullo,1,2 and Guglielmo Lomonaco1

1DIMNP, University of Pisa, CIRTEN, Largo Lucio Lazzarino n. 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy
2DIPTEM, University of Genova, Via all'Opera Pia 15/a, 16145 Genova, Italy

Received 1 March 2009; Accepted 1 July 2009

Academic Editor: Jim Kuijper

Copyright © 2009 Eleonora Bomboni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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