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Scientific Research and Design Institute of Electrotechnical Machinery. ENEA, Italy. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 93–100, August, 1994.
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Podlazov, L.N., Trekhov, V.E., Cherkashov, Y.M. et al. Computational modeling of the accident in the fourth power-generating unit of the chernobyl nuclear power plant. At Energy 77, 580–587 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02407430
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