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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Julio-Amhed Vallejo-Quintero, Guillermo-Elías Bastida-Ortiz, Juan-Luis François (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), José-Vicente Xolocostli-Munguía, Samuel Vargas-Escamilla (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares Carretera México), Edmundo del Valle-Gallegos (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
Transactions | Volume 116 | Number 1 | June 2017 | Pages 1229-1232
Reactor Physics
