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Production and Scientific Company “Termoksid,” Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant, Southern-Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 17–23, July, 1997.

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Sharygin, L.M., Muromskii, A.Y., Moiseev, V.E. et al. Sorption purification of liquid radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants. At Energy 83, 493–499 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418974

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