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All issues Volume 11 (2025) EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol., 11 (2025) 16 References
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EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol.
Volume 11, 2025
Euratom Research and Training in 2025: ‘Challenges, achievements and future perspectives’, edited by Roger Garbil, Seif Ben Hadj Hassine, Patrick Blaise, and Christophe Girold
Article Number 16
Number of page(s) 13
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2025015
Published online 16 May 2025
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