Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 940286, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/940286
Research Article

Preliminary Evaluation of a Nuclear Scenario Involving Innovative Gas Cooled Reactors

Barbara Vezzoni,1 Nicola Cerullo,1,2 Giuseppe Forasassi,1 Emil Fridman,3 Guglielmo Lomonaco,1,2 Vincenzo Romanello,4 and Eugene Shwageraus5

1Department of Mechanical, Nuclear and Production Engineering (DIMNP), University of Pisa, CIRTEN, Largo L. Lazzarino No. 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy
2Energy and Environmental Conditioning Department (DIPTEM), University of Genova, Via all'Opera Pia n. 15/a, 16145 Genova, Italy
3Accident Analysis Division (FWSS), Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), P.O. Box 51 01 19, 01314 Dresden, Germany
4Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies (IKET), Karlsruhe Institute for Tecnology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein, Leopoldshafen, Germany
5Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel

Received 31 March 2009; Accepted 1 September 2009

Academic Editor: Jim Kuijper

Copyright © 2009 Barbara Vezzoni 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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