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Elucidating the effect of minor-actinide addition on fuel-cladding chemical interaction in an HT-9 clad U-Pu-Zr metallic fuel irradiated to 6.15 at.% burnup in EBR-II

Bao-Phong Nguyen, Luca Capriotti, Assel Aitkaliyeva, Yachun Wang

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