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At that stage of IRIS4 irradiation progress, it is too early to conclude to a really promising
effect of oxide layer on the UMo/Al behaviour. Positive effect of Si observed after 4 cycles
needs to be confirmed. Further OSIRIS cycles planned by mid-2009 are compulsory to test
IRIS4 device at higher burn-up in order to complete the comparison with former IRIS
experiments and thus confirm or not current tendencies.
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