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Lithium loop facility for testing an electricity-generating pack of a converter reactor

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S. P. Korolev RKK “Énergiya”. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 55–57, July, 1997.

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Popova, E.L., Sinyavskii, V.V. & Sobolev, Y.A. Lithium loop facility for testing an electricity-generating pack of a converter reactor. At Energy 83, 531–533 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418980

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