High-entropy alloys for advanced nuclear applications

EJ Pickering, AW Carruthers, PJ Barron… - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The expanded compositional freedom afforded by high-entropy alloys (HEAs) represents a
unique opportunity for the design of alloys for advanced nuclear applications, in particular …

Designing radiation resistance in materials for fusion energy

SJ Zinkle, LL Snead - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Proposed fusion and advanced (Generation IV) fission energy systems require high-
performance materials capable of satisfactory operation up to neutron damage levels …

Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

Competing kinetics and He bubble morphology in W

L Sandoval, D Perez, BP Uberuaga, AF Voter - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The growth process of He bubbles in W is investigated using molecular dynamics and
parallel replica dynamics for growth rates spanning 6 orders of magnitude. Fast and slow …

Challenges and opportunities of modeling plasma–surface interactions in tungsten using high-performance computing

BD Wirth, KD Hammond, SI Krasheninnikov… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
The performance of plasma facing components (PFCs) is critical for ITER and future
magnetic fusion reactors. The ITER divertor will be tungsten, which is the primary candidate …

A review of surface damage/microstructures and their effects on hydrogen/helium retention in tungsten

YG Li, QR Zheng, LM Wei, CG Zhang, Z Zeng - Tungsten, 2020 - Springer
The change in surface damage/microstructures and its effects on the hydrogen (H)
isotope/helium (He) dynamic behavior are the key factors for investigating issues of tungsten …

Dynamics of small mobile helium clusters near tungsten surfaces

L Hu, KD Hammond, BD Wirth, D Maroudas - Surface Science, 2014 - Elsevier
We report the results of a systematic atomic-scale analysis of the dynamics of small mobile
helium clusters in tungsten, near tungsten surfaces. These helium clusters are attracted to …

Deuterium retention in tungsten irradiated by different ions

B Wielunska, M Mayer, T Schwarz-Selinger… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten was irradiated with different ion species (H, D, He, Si, Fe, Cu, W) at energies
between 0.3 and 20.3 MeV to two different calculated damage levels of 0.04 dpa and 0.5 …

Interactions of mobile helium clusters with surfaces and grain boundaries of plasma-exposed tungsten

L Hu, KD Hammond, BD Wirth… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report results of atomistic computations for the interactions of small mobile helium
clusters (He n) with free surfaces and grain boundaries (GBs) in tungsten toward …