[en] One of the objectives of the REVISA project (REactor Vessel Integrity in Severe Accidents) is to assess the size effect related to deformation and failure models as well as material data under quasistatic and dynamic conditions in homogeneous and non-homogeneous states of strain. For these investigations the reactor pressure vessel material 20 MnMoNi 55 was selected. It was subjected to a size effect study on notched scaled tensile specimens of three sizes. Two strain rates (2*10^-5/s and 10^-3/s) and two temperatures (room temperature and 400 ^oC) were selected. The investigations are aimed at a support for a gradient plasticity approach to size effects. Test on the small specimens (diameters 2.4 and 7.2 mm) were performed at an electromechanical test machine, while the large specimens (diameter 24 mm) had to be tested at a servohydraulical closed loop test machine with a force capacity of 1000 kN. All characteristic values were found to be size dependent. A selected semicircular notch retains its shape. The notch opening becomes a chord of a segment of a circle, the notch shape at fracture is a segment of a circle. (author)