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Acknowledgments The authors acknowledge financial support for this study provided by the project PSSITE No. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_020/0008549 of the Programme Johannes Commenius, call Intersectional Cooperation, and by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR) under Grant No.TN02000018 NCK Strojírenství . Data availability The data used in this study are available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006035 References Murty, K.L., Charit, I., 2008. Structural Materials for Gen-IV Nuclear Reactors: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Nuclear Materials 383, 189-195. Adamson, R.B., Rudling, R., 2013. Properties of Zirconium Alloys and their Applications in Ligh Water Reactor (LWRs) Components, in “ Materials Ageing and Degradation in Light Water Reactor – Mechanisms and Management ” . In: Murty, K.L. (Ed.). Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Series in Energy No. 44, Oxford, U.K.,151-234. Yagnik, S., Garde, A.,2019. 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