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Shock loads on units within the containment in the VVÉR-1000 in the initial stage of an emergency involving failure in the main circulation pipeline

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Nuclear Research and Nuclear Power Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 234–235, April, 1984.

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Boyadzhiev, A.I., Stefanova, S.I. Shock loads on units within the containment in the VVÉR-1000 in the initial stage of an emergency involving failure in the main circulation pipeline. At Energy 56, 264–267 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01124194

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