Editorial Committee

Institute for Nuclear Research,
115400 Pitești – Mioveni, str. Câmpului, no. 1, Romania
www.jnrd-nuclear.ro

Editor-in-Chief

Marin Constantin

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Daniela Diaconu

Editorial General Secretary

Cristina Alice Margeanu

Editors

Cristina Alice Margeanu, Marin Constantin, Minodora Apostol

Advisory Group for Editorial Policy

Octavian Uță, Cătălin-Marian Ducu, Daniela Diaconu, Constantin Păunoiu, Crina Bucur

Production

Stefan Preda

Web Edition

Silviu Măcăneasă, Andrei Poleacu, Petruș Ormenișanu

Editorial Advisory Board

Clara Anghel (GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy International LLC, Sweden), Vinicius N.P. Anghel (AECL, Canada), Ioan Viorel Arimescu (AREVA NP INC, USA), Wael Badawy (JINR Dubna, Russian Federation), Kay Birdsell (LANL, US), Mohamed N.H. Comsan (AEA, Egypt), Alina Constantin (IAEA, Austria), Catalina Oana Curceanu (INFN-LNF, Italy), Jean Pierre Van Dorsselaere (IRSN Cadarache, France), Cristian Dulama (INR Pitești, Romania), Galina Fesenko (former IAEA, Austria), Ron Fleck (COG, Canada), Manuela Fulger (INR Pitești, Romania), Georgios Glinatsis (Italy), Mohamed A. Gomaa (AEA, Egypt), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA Bologna, Italy), Olena Gritzay (INR Kiev, Ukraine), Pavlin Grudev (INRNE – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Dan Ilas (ORNL, USA), Germina Ilas (ORNL, USA), Bernadette L. Kirk (former ORNL, USA), Claire Mays (Symlog Paris, France), Eleodor Nichita (Univ. of Ontario, Inst. of Technology, Canada), Dumitru Ohai (Romania), Vasile Radu (INR Pitești, Romania), Federico Rocchi (ENEA Bologna, Italy), Mohammed Sallah (Mansoura Univ., Egypt), Enrico Sartori (France), Bulent Sevdik (Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Centre, Turkey), V.P. Singh (NPCIL, India), Alexandru Toma (INR Pitești, Romania), Kwok Tsang (AMEC NSS, Canada), George Zyvolovski (LANL, USA), Andrew Wallace (Kinectrics, Canada)

Journal of Nuclear Research and Development (ISSN 2247–191X, ISSN-L = 2247–191X) is published by the Institute for Nuclear Research (RATEN ICN) Pitești, whose Scientific Council has the final responsibility for the Journal.