Ref: JNM_2018_309_R1
Title: The influence of external stress/strain on the uranium-hydrogen reaction
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials

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Comments from the editors and reviewers:
-Reviewer 1

- I am happy with most of the responses, I would, however, remove the sentence on page 3, line 30 "We found that bending experiments may allow answering these questions" as this is both poorly written and redundant as the previous sentence sums up the approach quite well. Also I am unsure why you are insisting on purely qualitative results and conclusions if the processing has already been performed in imagej, however, i accept that the summary and conclusions are appropriate to the approach taken.

Editor: Please have a native English speaker proof read the manuscript. I found typos (e.g., rapture instead of rupture) and sentences that need to be improved from an English perspective.

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