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Thermophysical means for nondestructive investigation of the airtightness and gas parameters in reactor fuel elements

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State Science Center of the Russian Federation — A. A. Boshvar All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Engineering. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 20–26, January, 1996.

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Pastushin, V.V., Novikov, A.Y., Zelenchuk, A.V. et al. Thermophysical means for nondestructive investigation of the airtightness and gas parameters in reactor fuel elements. At Energy 80, 20–25 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02415750

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