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Justification for extending the operation of the graphite cladding in the reactors of the bilibino nuclear power station

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 436–441, December, 1998.

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Virgil'ev, Y.S., Gundorov, V.V., Kalyagina, I.P. et al. Justification for extending the operation of the graphite cladding in the reactors of the bilibino nuclear power station. At Energy 85, 863–868 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02361115

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