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IBRAE Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 382–387, May, 1993.
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Veshchunov, M.S., Galimov, R.R. Additional mechanisms of accelerated gas release from uranium fuel under accident conditions. At Energy 74, 348–352 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00844619
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