Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor

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Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor. / Goussarov, Andrei; Schyns, Marc (Peer reviewer).

In: IEEE transactions on nuclear Science, Vol. 57, No. 4, 04.2010, p. 2044-2048.

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Goussarov, A & Schyns, M 2010, 'Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor', IEEE transactions on nuclear Science, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2044-2048. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2010.2042614

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Goussarov, A., & Schyns, M. (2010). Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor. IEEE transactions on nuclear Science, 57(4), 2044-2048. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2010.2042614

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Goussarov A, Schyns M. Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor. IEEE transactions on nuclear Science. 2010 Apr;57(4):2044-2048. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2010.2042614

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Goussarov, Andrei ; Schyns, Marc. / Long-Term Exposure of Fiber Bragg Gratings in the BR1 Low-Flux Nuclear Reactor. In: IEEE transactions on nuclear Science. 2010 ; Vol. 57, No. 4. pp. 2044-2048.

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