journal article·2025-05

Development of the technological process for the IGR reactor's highly-enriched irradiated uranium-graphite fuel immobilization

Kuanysh K. Samarkhanov, Yuliya Yu. Baklanova, Olga S. Bukina, Viktor V. Baklanov, Yerbolat T. Koyanbayev, Ivan M. Kukushkin, Igor M. Bolshinsky, Kenneth J. Bateman

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