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Research Articles

Consistency Among the Results of the ASPIS Iron88, PCA Replica, and PCA ORNL Benchmark Experiments

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Pages 381-390 | Received 28 Nov 2022, Accepted 01 Apr 2023, Published online: 10 Jul 2023

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