Isotopic Fissile Assay of Spent Fuel in a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer System
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عنوان ژورنال: Nuclear Engineering and Technology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1738-5733
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2016.09.008