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Current Activities & News

 

Henri Coriou Award

Damien Féron (CEA/INSTN, France) has won this year's Henri Coriou Award for outstanding contributions to corrosion science and engineering in the nuclear field. More details can be found under the 'Awards' tab...

Nominations for the 2024 Henry Coriou Award can be submitted to the WP 4 Chair until 28 February 2024!


Best young presenter Prize 2023

The prize for the best young presenter of the 2023 Nuclear Corrosion session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Giacomo Gregori (SCK CEN, Belgium) for the presentation ‘Electrochemical determination of thermodynamic properties of corrosion products in lead-bismuth eutectic cooled nuclear systems’. More details can be found under the 'Awards' tab...


Best Poster Prize 2023

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2022 Nuclear Corrosion session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Annesha Das (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) for the poster ‘Assessing the role of surface conditions in SCC susceptibility of Alloy 182 in simulated LWR environments’. More details can be found under the 'Awards' tab...


Upcoming Events and Workshops 

  • 5th Online Seminar on Nuclear Corrosion: 'Is copper a safe canister material for long-term storage of nuclear waste?'
    25 April 2024, 14:00-15:30 (CEST), by Christofer Leygraf (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
    Flyer, Extended abstract, registration (free of charge): here

  • Joint session during EUROCORR 2024 on 'Corrosion in molten salts and ionic liquids for energy applications'
    1 - 5 September 2024, Paris (France)
    Co-organised by WP 4, WP 3 & TF on Corrosion in Green and Low Carbon Energy Technologies
    Flyer

  • 9th Int. WS on Long-Term Prediction of Corrosion Damage in Nucl. Waste Systems (LTC 2025)
    4 - 6 November 2025, Sendai, Tohoku Region, Japan; EFC Event No. 501
     

Nuclear Corrosion Summer School 2023 - NuCoSS-23

In a beautiful alpine resort in Slovenia, the third edition of the Nuclear Corrosion Summer School – NuCoSS-23, organized by WP 4 in co-operation with the local host, the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, has been successfully held. Students, scientists and engineers from all over the world have been enjoying amazing lectures and great social/leisure activities. More details can be found under the 'Previous Activities' tab...


RECENT & Future Publications

 


Minutes from Recent WP 4 meetings

 

 


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Mission

  • To provide links between European teams and EU-funded programs in the nuclear corrosion field, with an opening on to the world;
  • To initiate and stimulate opportunities of exchange of scientific and technical subjects related to nuclear corrosion, particularly on today's main nuclear research areas (waste systems, water reactors, generation IV and fusion reactors);
  • To promote corrosion science and technical developments through events such as seminars, workshops, publications, etc.

Nuclear Corrosion Awards

 

The following prizes are awarded by the WP 4 each year (usually during the annual EUROCORR congress):

Please note: Nominations for the 2024 Henri Coriou Award should be submitted to the WP Chair or Vice-Chair no later than February 28, 2024. At the EUROCORR 2024 in Paris, the poster prize and the best early-career oral presenter prize will be awarded again.


Henri Coriou Award

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2023

The 2023 Honorary Medal of the WP 4 for outstanding contributions to corrosion science and engineering in the nuclear field has been awarded to

Damien Féron

CEA/INSTN, France (retired)

Short CV: Damien Féron is currently “Conseiller Scientifique” (scientific adviser) at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Professor at the INSTN (National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology). He has been Director of Research at the CEA Nuclear Energy Division (2007-2022). He is involved in the various fields of nuclear corrosion since more than 40 years, starting with liquid metal and moving towards aqueous media (including seawater corrosion and microbial corrosion). He was Chair of the EFC WP 4 ‘Nuclear Corrosion’ for 14 years and he has been President of the European Federation of Corrosion and of the WCO (World Corrosion Organization), a non-governmental organization recognized by the United Nations. He published around 70 papers in journals and has been editor or co-editor of 24 books or special issues of journals (including 10 “Green Books” in the EFC series), mainly in the field of microbial corrosion, seawater corrosion and nuclear corrosion.

 

Previous laureates

2022: Prof. Pål Efsing, Ringhals AB, Sweden

2021: Prof. M. Grace Burke, University of Manchester, Materials Performance Centre, UK

2020: Mrs. Ulla Ehrnstén, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland

2019: Mr. Hans-Peter Seifert, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

2018: Dr. Gérard Pinard Legry, Consultant, France

2017: Prof. Hannu Hänninen, Aalto University, Finland

2016: Prof. David Tice, Jacobs, UK

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WP 4 Prize for the best Oral Presentation

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2023

The prize for the best young presenter of the 2023 Nuclear Corrosion session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Giacomo Gregori (SCK CEN, Belgium, see photo) for the presentation ‘Electrochemical determination of thermodynamic properties of corrosion products in lead-bismuth eutectic cooled nuclear systems’; co-authors: A. Aerts, J. Lim (SCK CEN, Belgium), Th. Doneux (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

The sponsorship of the prizes (see photo here) by Elsevier, Cormet and PSI is gratefully acknowledged!

   

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2022

The prize for the best young presenter of the 2022 Nuclear Corrosion session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Annabelle Vernouillet (CEA, CNRS, France, see photo) for the presentation ‘Corrosion of carbon-steel casing used in deep geological radioactive waste repository’; co-authors: C. Carré, D. Neff, P. Dillmann (all CEA, France), X. Bourbon, V. Maillot-Deydier, N. Michau (all Andra, France).

The sponsorship of the prizes (see photo here) by Elsevier, Cormet and PSI is gratefully acknowledged!

   

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2021

The prize for the best young presenter of the 2021 Nuclear Corrosion session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Rachma Azihari, CEA, France (see photo) for the presentation ‘Experimental characterization and modelling of intergranular fracture of unirradiated and irradiated pre-oxidized austenitic stainless steels’; co-authors: Jérémy Hure, Benoît Tanguy (both CEA Saclay, France), Marc Legros (CEMES-CNRS, France).
The presentation slides can be downloaded: here

The sponsorship of the prizes (Green Book No.69) by Elsevier is gratefully acknowledged!

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2019

The prize for the best oral presentation of the 2019 Nuclear Corrosion Session has been awarded to Annesha Das, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India (see photo) for the presentation ‘Effect of surface preparation on oxidation of austenitic SS 304L in high temperature water’; co-authors: Supratik Roychowdhury, Vivekanand Kain (BARC, Mumbai, India).
The paper can be downloaded: here

 

2018

‘Simulation of C-Ring, O-Ring and tensile ring specimens for Iodine induced SCC experiments on zirconium alloy’ by Kamila Wilczynska, CEA & INP Grenoble, France; co-authors: Matthew Bono (CEA, France), David Le Boulch (CEA, France), Marion Fregonese (INSA de Lyon, France), Valérie Chabretou (Framatome, France), Nathanael Mozzani (EdF, France), Martin Rautenberg (EdF, France).
The paper can be downloaded: here

2017

'Hydrogen trapping by irradiation-induced defects in 316L stainless steel', by Anne-Cécile Bach, CEA, France; co-authors: Frantz Martin (CEA, France), Cécilie Duhamel (MINES ParisTech, France), Stéphane Perrin (CEA, France), François Jomard (CNRS, France), Jérôme Crepin (MINES ParisTech, France).
The paper can be downloaded: here

2016

1st place: 'Using tapered specimen to study the effect of hydrogen on SCC initiation in Alloy 182 under BWR condition', by Juxing Bai, Stefan Ritter, Hans-Peter Seifert (all Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland), and Sannakaisa Virtanen (University of Erlangen, Germany); 2nd place: 'Pitting corrosion modelling by means of a stochastic cellular automata based model', by Cristian Felipe Pérez-Brokate (CEA, France), Dung di Caprio (CNRS - Chimie ParisTech, France), Damien Féron (CEA, France), Jacques de Lamare (CEA, France), and Annie Chaussé (Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, France)

2015

'In situ imaging of corrosion processes in nuclear fuel cladding', by Alice Laferrere, Robert Burrows (National Nuclear Laboratory, UK), Ron Clark, Carol Glover, Geraint Williams (University of Swansea, UK), Oliver Payton, Loren Picco (University of Bristol, UK)

2014

'Intergranular oxidation of Alloy 600 exposed to simulated PWR primary water', by Jacqueline Caballero Hinostroza, Jérôme Crépin, Thierry Couvant and Cécilie Duhamel (Centre des Matériaux-Mines ParisTech and EDF R&D, France)


WP 4 Poster Prize

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2023

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2023 Nuclear Corrosion Session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Annesha Das (Paul Scherer Institute (PSI), Switzerland) for the poster 'Assessing the role of surface conditions in SCC susceptibility of Alloy 182 in simulated LWR environments'; co-authors: H.-P. Seifert, S. Ritter (all PSI, Switzerland).
The poster can be downloaded: here

The sponsorship of the prizes (see photo here) by Elsevier, Cormet and PSI is gratefully acknowledged!

  

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2022

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2022 Nuclear Corrosion Session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Adrianna Mackiewicz, (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, left on the photo) for the poster ‘Microstructural investigation of oxide films on Alloy 182 weld metal formed under BWR zinc water chemistry’; co-authors: Stefan Ritter, Kai Chen, Hans-Peter Seifert (all PSI, Switzerland), Sannakaisa Virtanen (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany).
The poster can be downloaded: here

The sponsorship of the prizes (see photo here) by Elsevier, Cormet and PSI is gratefully acknowledged!

  

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2021

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2021 Nuclear Corrosion Session at the EUROCORR has been awarded to Adrianna Mackiewicz, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland (see photo) for the poster ‘Zinc injection in light water reactors to mitigate stress corrosion cracking of Alloy 182 and cold-worked type 316L stainless steel’; co-authors: Stefan Ritter, Kai Chen, Hans-Peter Seifert (all PSI, Switzerland), Sannakaisa Virtanen (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany).
The poster can be downloaded: here

The sponsorship of the prizes (Green Book No.69) by Elsevier is gratefully acknowledged!

  

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2020

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2020 Nuclear Corrosion Session has been awarded to Ulrich Harm, Techn. Universität Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany (see photo) for the poster ‘Electrochemical corrosion studies on zinc in boric acid containing electrolytes’; co-authors: H. Kryk, U. Hampel (all TU Dresden, HZDR, Germany).
The poster can be downloaded: here

The sponsorship of the prizes (see books on the left) by Elsevier and CEA is gratefully acknowledged!

  

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2019

The prize for the best poster presentation of the 2019 Nuclear Corrosion Session has been awarded to Sriharitha Rowthu, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland (see photo) for the poster ‘Assessment of the Pt nanoparticle distribution on oxidized stainless steel surfaces by electrochemical techniques’; co-authors: Yu-Wei Yeh, Pascal V. Grundler, Stefan Ritter (all PSI, Switzerland), Reuben Holmes (NNL, UK).
The poster can be downloaded: here

2018

‘Investigation of the effects of irradiation on corrosive environments using in-situ electrochemical measurements during gamma-ray irradiation’ by Sato Tomonori, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan; co-author: Fumiyoshi Ueno (JAEA, Japan).
The poster can be downloaded: here

2017

'Effect of dissolved oxygen on flow-accelerated corrosion in neutral and alkaline solutions', by Kazutoshi Fujiwara, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry - CRIEPI, Japan (see photo); co-authors: Kimitoshi Yoneda, Fumio Inada, (both CRIEPI, Japan).
The paper can be downloaded: here

2015

'High temperature oxidation of 9-12% Cr materials P91 and P92 in supercritical conditions (25 MPa, 600°C)', by Zuzana Skoumalová, Jaroslav Burda (ÚJV Řež a.s., CZ)

2014

'Investigation of the temperature effect on the oxide layer formed on Alloy 182 in simulated PWR environment', by Renato de Mendonça, Rik-Wouter Bosch and Wouter Van Renterghem (CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education, Brazil and SCK-CEN, Belgium)

2013

'Effects of chloride and sulphate ions on the corrosion of Alloy 800 steam generator tube', by Fabio A. Mansur, Monica Maria A.M. Schvartzman, Pedro Henrique B.O. Nogueira, Marco Antonio Dutra Quinan (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Brazil)

Publications

 

2023

The 8th International Workshop on Long-term Prediction of Corrosion in Nuclear Waste Systems (LTC 2022) was held in Baden, Switzerland in June 22-24, 2022. The event was hosted by the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Nagra, and was attended by 70 representatives of nuclear waste management organizations; university, government, and industrial researchers; and regulators from 15 different countries. The meeting was Event No. 480 of the European Federation of Corrosion.

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2021
2020

In 2017, the EFC’s Working Party (WP) 4 on Nuclear Corrosion marked its 50th anniversary with a workshop comprising invited talks from renowned experts covering almost the entire range of nuclear corrosion topics. As a result of these workshop contributions, Nuclear Corrosion: Research, Progress and Challenges is being published as part of the “Green Book” series of the EFC. This book will build upon the foundations of the very first book published in this series in 1989 (Number 1—A Working Party Report on Corrosion in the Nuclear Industry). Since that publication, this WP has guided and supported the research and application of results in the broad field of nuclear corrosion.
This newest volume provides an overview on the state-of-the-art of research in some of the most important areas of nuclear corrosion. The chapters covered include ageing phenomena in light water reactors, reprocessing plants, as well as in nuclear waste disposal, supercritical water, and liquid metal systems. This book will be a vital resource for researchers and engineers working within the nuclear field in both academic and industrial environments.

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2017
2016
2014
2012
2011
2009
  • NUCPERF 2009 - Long Term Performance of Cementitious Barriers and Reinforced Concrete in Nuclear Power Plants and Waste Management
    Edited by V. L'Hostis, R. Gens and C. Gallé
    RILEM Publications SARL, 2009, ISBN: 978-2-35158-072-1

2008
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Links and Miscellaneous

  

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Previous Activities & Minutes from WP 4 Business Meetings

 

previous WP 4 Events

2023
  • Joint session during EUROCORR 2023 on 'Environmentally-assisted crack initiation'
    29 August 2023
    Co-organised by WP 4, WP 5 & WP 22
     
  • Nuclear Corrosion Summer School 2023 - NuCoSS-23
    2 - 7 July 2023, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia; EFC Event No. 488
    Co-organised by ZAG (B. Zajec, T. Kosec, M. Hren, A. Legat), PSI (S. Ritter), CEA (L. Martinelli), University of Manchester (F. Scenini, D. Engelberg)
    Group photograph, Website
    , Flyer

  • 4th Online Seminar on Nuclear Corrosion: Stress corrosion cracking of austenitic alloys: From the Coriou effect to the stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel’
    25 April 2023, 14:00-15:15 (CEST) by Damien Féron (France)
    Link to recorded presentation, Flyer
2022
  • 8th Int. WS on Long-Term Prediction of Corrosion Damage in Nucl. Waste Systems (LTC 2022)
    21-24 June 2022, Baden, Switzerland; EFC Event No. 480
    Organised by N. Diomidis (Nagra)
    Short report
       
  • 3rd Online Seminar on Nuclear Corrosion: 'Environmentally-Assisted Cracking of Structural Materials in Light Water Reactors'
    25 April 2022, by Peter L. Andresen (Consultant, retired from GE-Global Research Center, USA)

    Presentation slides: Download
    Recorded talk: Link
    Flyer

  • European-Chinese corrosion online seminar on nuclear corrosion
    15 March 2022, online, co-organised by the Surface Science Editorial Department (Chongqing, China) & WP 4
    Talks from: C. Padovani (Jacobs, UK), D. Engelberg (University of Manchester, UK), Th. Couvant (EdF, France) and S. Ritter (PSI, Switzerland)

2021
2020
  • Joint session during the "virtual" EUROCORR 2020 on 'Environmentally-assisted crack initiation'
    9 September 2020
    Co-organised by WP 4 (S. Ritter, PSI), WP 5 (K. Wolski, CNRS), WP 22 (Th. Hack, Airbus) and the Horizon 2020 project MEACTOS
     
  • Nuclear Corrosion Web-Seminar
    30 June 2020
    This Web-seminar presented four very interesting talks from different nuclear corrosion research fields, which originally have been presented at the EUROCORR 2019 in Seville
2019
  • Nuclear Corrosion Summer School 2019 - NuCoSS-19
    7 - 12 July 2019, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia; EFC Event No. 440
    Organised by ZAG (B. Zajec, T. Kosec, A. Legat, N. Gartner, P. Močnik and M. Hren), PSI (S. Ritter), CEA (D. Féron and L. Martinelli), University of Manchester (F. Scenini, D. Engelberg and G. Burke) and co-organised by the MEACTOS project
    Report
  • Int. Winter School on 'Modelling of Corrosion'
    28 January - 1 February 2019, INSTN, CEA-Saclay, France; EFC Event
    Organised by D. Féron, L. Martinelli, C. Meis (CEA) & P.R. Dahoo (UVSQ)
    Report 
2017
  • Workshop on '50 years of Working Party Nuclear Corrosion'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2017 & 20th ICC, 4 September 2017, in Prague, CZ
    Organised by D. Féron and S. Ritter
    Flyer

2016
  • Conference on Flow Accelerated Corrosion - FAC 2016
    24 - 27 May 2016, in Lille, France
    Report
     
  • 6th Int. Workshop on Long-Term Prediction of Corrosion Damage in Nuclear Waste Systems (LTC 2016)
    9 - 12 May 2016, in Toronto, Canada
    Report

2015
2014
  • Spring School on 'Modelling of Corrosion for Nuclear Reactors'
    31 March - 4 April 2014, Saclay, France
    Organised by D. Féron (CEA-DEN), Ch. Gallé (CEA-MINOS), C. Meis (CEA-INSTN), B. Martin-Cabanas (EDF R&D) and J. Gale (Curtin Univ.)
2013
  • 5th Int. Workshop on 'Long-Term Prediction of Corrosion Damage in Nuclear Waste Systems' (LongTermCorr 2013)
    6 - 10 October 2013, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan; EFC Event No. 360
    Organised by JSCE, supported by WP 4, NUCE and JSME
    Proceedings
     
  • Workshop on 'Radiation and Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plants'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2013, 3 - 4 September 2013, Estoril, Portugal
    Organised by WP 4 in collaboration with Perform 60 (EU6), co-chaired by Th. Couvant (EDF), M. Konstantinovic (SCK-CEN) and W. Karlsen (VTT)
2012
  • Winter School on 'Modelling of Corrosion'
    10 - 14 December 2012, Saclay, France (EFC Event No. 354)
    Organised by D. Féron (CEA-DEN), C. Meis (CEA-INSTN), Ph. Marcus (Chimie ParisTech) and J. Gale (Curtin Univ.)
     
  • NUCPERF 2012 Workshop on 'Long-Term Performance of Cementitious Barriers and Reinforced Concrete in Nuclear Power Plant and Radioactive Waste Storage and Disposal'
    12 - 15 November 2012, Cadarache, France (EFC Event No. 351, RILEM Event TC 226-CNM)
    Organised by V. L'Hostis, L. Chomat and A. Henry
     
  • Workshop on 'Occurrence and Mechanisms of Environmentally-Assisted Cracking'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2012, 10 September 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
    Co-organised by WP 4, 5, 9, 13, 15 and 17
2011
  • 2nd Int. Workshop on `Corrosion Monitoring in Nuclear Systems (Research and Applications)`
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2011, 6 September 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
    Organised by S. Ritter (PSI) and A. Molander (Studsvik) in collaboration with the ECG-COMON
2010
  • International Workshop on 'Ageing-Management of Nuclear Power Plants and Waste Disposal Structures'
    7 - 10 November 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; EFC Event No. 334
    Organised by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and CEA in conjuction with the WP 4
     
  • 4th International Workshop on 'Long Term Prediction of Corrosion Damage in Nuclear Waste Systems' (LongTermCorr 2010)
    28 June - 2 July 2010, Oud Sint-Jan Art and Congress Centre, Brugge, Belgium; EFC Event No. 329
    Organised by SCK-CEN and NIRAS/ONDRAF
    Website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycst20/46/2
     
  • International Workshop on 'Coupling Mechanisms to Improve Lifetime Prediction of LWRs'
    8 - 9 April 2010, Les Renardières, Moret-sur-Loing, France; EFC Event No. 331
    Organised by EDF R&D and MAI (T. Couvant and V. Bordier)
     
  • Jubilee Day: 'Stress Corrosion Cracking of Nickel-Base Alloys at CEA - Coriou Effect'
    26 - 27 January 2010, CEA Saclay, France; EFC Event No. 333
    Organised by CEA
    Proceedings available as EFC Green Book No. 67
2009
  • Workshop on 'Corrosion Issues in Future Nuclear Systems'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2009
    Organised by D. Féron (CEA) in collaboration with M. Schütze (WP 3) and NACE (TEG-224X)
     
  • Workshop on 'Simulation, Modelling and Life Prediction'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2009
    Organised by R. Oltra, R.A. Cottis, Vankeerberghen, and P. Marcus
     
  • NUCPERF 2009 Workshop on 'Long-Term Performance of Cementitous Barriers and Reinforced Concrete in Nuclear Power Plants and Waste Management'
    EFC Event No. 317, 30 March - 2 April 2009, Cadarache, France
2008
  • SACNUC Workshop on 'Sulphur Assisted Corrosion in Nuclear Disposal Systems'
    EFC Event No. 311, 21 - 23 October 2008, Brussels, Belgium
    Organised by SCK-CEN
2007
  • Workshop on 'Corrosion Monitoring in Nuclear Systems'
    Special WS during EUROCORR 2007
    Organised by S. Ritter (PSI) and A. Molander (Studsvik) in collaboration with the ECG-COMON
    The contributions to this WS are available as EFC Green Book No. 56

 


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