Issue
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 42
Number of page(s) 8
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2025036
Published online 15 August 2025
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