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NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 48, Issue 6, 060013(2025)

Transient simulation of nuclear thermal-hydraulic coupling startup of heat pipe reactor based on reduced-order models

Shuqiu SHEN¹, Jinbiao XIONG¹, Xiaojing LIU^1,2,3, and Tengfei ZHANG^1、*

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¹School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²College of Smart Energy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³Shanghai Digital Nuclear Reactor Technology Intergration Innovation Center, Shanghai 200240, China

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Category: Special Topics of Academic Papers at The 27th Annual Meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology

Received: Nov. 22, 2024

Accepted: --

Published Online: Jul. 25, 2025

The Author Email: Tengfei ZHANG (张滕飞)

DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2025.hjs.48.240471

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