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New reports allege Russia is flying kamikaze drones and firing small arms near the site of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Europe’s largest such facility, Zaporizhzhia has been under Russian control since 2022.
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Transactions | Volume 106 | Number 1 | June 2012 | Pages 705-707
Reactor Physics | Reactor Analysis Methods - I