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Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015
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«Voyager, c’est bien utile, ça fait travailler l’imagination» (Céline). C’est à l’occasion d’un voyage en train entre Neuchâtel et Genève que Pierre Genequand, alors ingénieur au CSEM, eut l’idée d’associer les avantages des structures flexibles et les car ...
