Natural nuclear reactor at Oklo and variation of fundamental constants: Computation of neutronics of a fresh core

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Petrov, Yu V ^a   Nazarov, A I ^a   Onegin, M S ^a   Petrov, V Yu ^a   Sakhnovsky, E G ^a  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 33845516090     PISSN: 05562813     EISSN: 1089490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.74.064610     Document Type: Article

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