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In 2002–2005, the IAEA, with the support of the JRC, conducted a coordinated research project on the safety significance for nuclear installations of low–medium magnitude near-field input motions, with the objective of eliciting the relative low damaging capacity of this type of signal, not properly predicted by the nuclear industry practice. It was concluded that the near-field attribute does not...