PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR FUEL TECHNOLOGY IN KOREA
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Song, Kun-Woo
(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Jeon, Kyeong-Lak (Korea Nuclear Fuel) Jang, Young-Ki (Korea Nuclear Fuel) Park, Joo-Hwan (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) Koo, Yang-Hyun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) |
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Yang-Hyun Koo, Byung-Ho Lee, and Dong-Seong Sohn, “COSMOS: A Computer Code to Analyze LWR |
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Byung-Ho Lee, Yang-Hyun Koo, Je-Yong Oh, Jin-Sik Cheon, and Dong-Seong Sohn, “Improvement of Fuel Performance Code COSMOS with Recent In-pile Data for MOX and |
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