Nuclear power: Current and future role in the world electricity generation

Nuclear Power: Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-544

  Pedraza, Jorge Morales ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

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